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Mythology & Putti

    GIJSBERT VAN VEEN (LEIDEN 1562-ANTWERP 1628)

    Apollo and the Four Seasons

    dated 1589

    Engraving | 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
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Religions of antiquity
            • Classical mythology
              • Apollo (myth)
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Earth sciences
          • Seasons
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.132 D.XX.1

      Hollstein XXXII, no.13

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