Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5135831
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
De offerande met exotische dieren
Technique
Year
1697
Print run
Publisher
Dimensions
25,8 x 19,2
Printing office
Details

Etching by Wenzel Hollar (1607-1677) after Francis Cleyn (ca.1582-1658) with a depiction of an offering. In the foreground the altar with a priest and the executioner, with a dead ox. Behind it a dead horse, a dead sheep and a dead lion, as well as a lying ox and an ox that gets a plow. Farther back a dead elephant and a hay cart pulled by four men. Published in London by Jacob Tonson in 1697 in: "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics, and Aeneid. Translated into English Verse; by Mr. Dryden. Adorn'd with a Hundred Sculptures." Signed lower left in print. Numbered 105 at the top.

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