Instabili tumidum veluti mare fluctuat æstu, . sic leuis infido fallit Rhamnusia vultu: Nemo igitur rebus fidat sublatus optimis, sed vaga spernentur dubiæ ludibria sortis.
Category
Art / Prints
Date
circa 1590
Materials
Place of origin
Germany
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3115459.26
Summary
Single plate engraving of the birth of Venus, emerging from the water on a shell, blown towards shore by the Zephyrs, symbols of spiritual passions.
Bibliographic description
1 sheet (21 cm x 16 cm) . fol.. Pasted to verso of plate 24 of 'Kunstbüchlein' (1596).. Binding: Seventeenth-century full green paper over boards; tiny fragments of earlier printed waste visible (liturgical music?).