Mythology & Putti
Mythology & Putti
GIJSBERT VAN VEEN (LEIDEN 1562-ANTWERP 1628)
Apollo and the Four Seasons
dated 1589Engraving | 28.8 x 33.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851763
An engraving crediting Raphael as the inventor of the composition. Lettered with engraver's name and 8 lines of verse in Latin. With publisher's monogram at lower centre (showing a nail) and date. This state (lacking the lettering 'Cum / prae' at either side of the nail) is not described in Hollstein.
Creator(s)
Gijsbert van Veen (Leiden 1562-Antwerp 1628) (engraver)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)
Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1601) (publisher)
28.8 x 33.1 cm (sheet of paper)
- Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Literature
- Fiction
- Tales & legends
- Myths
- Tales & legends
- Fiction
- Literature
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Apollo (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Earth sciences
- Seasons
- Earth sciences
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Language, Linguistics and Literature
Other number(s)
Ruland p.132 D.XX.1
Hollstein XXXII, no.13
