Terms and conditions of use
Chastity
1552
from the Virtues and Vices series, 1552
- Medium
- engraving
- Measurements
- 10.1 × 6.2 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- The Illustrated Bartsch 120 (vol. 16 p. 194); Hollstein vol. I p. 58
- Inscription
- printed in ink (in image) l.r.: 1552 / AG (monogram)
printed in ink below image l.l.-l.r.: Caƒta pudicitiae virtus obnoxia nullis / Criminibus quoru ſit ƒacienda rea.
stamped in purple ink on reverse c.: NATIONAL GALLERY / OF VICTORIA (in oval) (Lugt 1932g)
inscribed in pencil on small backing sheet l.c.: La Chastité
inscribed in pen and brown ink on small backing sheet on reverse c.l.: WS (Lugt 2650: W. Sharp)
inscribed in pen and brown ink on small backing sheet on reverse l.r.: 40" Mar 1698
stamped in ink l.c.: (incomplete collector's stamp, probably Lugt 2364: Sir Joshua Reynolds)
inscribed in pencil on larger backing sheet l.r.: RS 1063 (1063 in a circle)
inscribed in pencil on larger backing sheet l.l.: B.120 Chastity - Accession Number
- 1278.565-3
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- Subjects (general)
- Allegory and Symbols Animals Human Figures
- Subjects (specific)
- angels (spirits) banners personification purity unicorns virtue Virtues (allegorical characters) women (female humans)
- Movements
- Renaissance
