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THEODOR DE BRY, AFTER JOHANN SADELER I, AFTER CHRISTOPH SCHWARZ. Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center

Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center. Artist: Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Liège 1528-1598 Frankfurt); After Johann Sadeler I (Netherlandish, Brussels 1550-1600/1601 Venice); after Christoph Schwarz (German, Munich ca. 1548-1592 Munich). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 5 3/8 in. (13.5 × 13.6 cm). Date: 1580-1600. An allegorical scene with a warning against venereal disease set in a landscape in a circle at center. At right, a figure plays the lute in front of a fountain with Venus and Cupid. At center, a man gestures towards the fountain, while facing left towards a figure with a spear standing over a man crouching to drink from a stream into which a dog is urinating. Around the central circle, strapwork ornaments on a crosshatch background. The scene is a reverse copy of a print by Johannes Sadeler (Hollstein XXI.163.492) after a print by Christoph Schwarz.
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Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center
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Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center. Artist: Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Liège 1528-1598 Frankfurt); After Johann Sadeler I (Netherlandish, Brussels 1550-1600/1601 Venice); after Christoph Schwarz (German, Munich ca. 1548-1592 Munich). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 5 3/8 in. (13.5 × 13.6 cm). Date: 1580-1600. An allegorical scene with a warning against venereal disease set in a landscape in a circle at center. At right, a figure plays the lute in front of a fountain with Venus and Cupid. At center, a man gestures towards the fountain, while facing left towards a figure with a spear standing over a man crouching to drink from a stream into which a dog is urinating. Around the central circle, strapwork ornaments on a crosshatch background. The scene is a reverse copy of a print by Johannes Sadeler (Hollstein XXI.163.492) after a print by Christoph Schwarz.
Technique/material:
engraving
Museum:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Credit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Image size:
3635 x 3625 px | 37.7 MB
Print size:
30.8 x 30.7 cm | 12.1 x 12.1 in (300 dpi)
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