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Rhetoric

Rhetoric
 (1565)
plate 4 from the Seven liberal arts series, 1st edition, published by Hieronymous Cock, Antwerp, 1565

Medium
engraving
Measurements
21.2 × 28.3 cm irreg. (image) 22.5 × 28.3 cm irreg. (plate) 23.4 × 29.2 cm irreg. (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Antwerp, Flanders
Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 200 i/ii; Bierens de Haan 227
Edition
1st of 2 states
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: FF (monogram)
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.l.: CICERO
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: AESCHINES / HORTENSIVS / ISOCRATES / DEMOSTHENES / QVINTILIANVS
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: RHETORICA
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: •4•
printed in ink l.c.l.: RHETORICÆ GRATOS SERMONI ASTVTA COLORES, / QVO DVLIVS FLVAT IS AVREIS, ADVCIT.
Accession Number
1278.223-3
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 Human Figures Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching
Subjects (specific)
discussions (events) men (male humans) reproductive prints Rhetoric (allegorical character) rhetoric (discipline) seated figures women (female humans)