Young man climbing a rocky hillside aided by a blinfolded cupid (Allegory of the misuse of wordly property: Set title)
by Swanenburg(h), Willem van (1581/2-1612) after Heemskerck, Maarten van (1498-1574)
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Second plate from the series: Allegory of the misuse of wordly property; a young man climbing a rocky hillside aided by a blinfolded cupid. Lettered below two lines of text in Latin and in Dutch:'Caeca Voluptatem mox exceptura Cupido / Evelsit ad summas te violenter opes // Den Lust Begheerte volght, en treckt niet sonder moeyten / Den Mesch om hooch in't gout end'eer syn lust te boeten.' Numbered on the bottom left:'2'l Engraving on paper, trimmed within platemark; total: 210 x 151mm; only state; Hollstein 23; w. 31, v. Stolk 303
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- Young man climbing a rocky hillside aided by a blinfolded cupid (Allegory of the misuse of wordly property: Set title)
- Author
- Swanenburg(h), Willem van (1581/2-1612) after Heemskerck, Maarten van (1498-1574)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Keywords
- (general) Allegory
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