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Rhetoric

Cornelis CORT (engraver), Frans FLORIS (after)
Rhetoric
 (1565)
plate 4 from the Seven liberal arts series, 1st edition, published by Hieronymous Cock, Antwerp, 1565

Medium
engraving

Measurements
21.2 × 28.3 cm irreg. (image) 22.5 × 28.3 cm irreg. (plate) 23.4 × 29.2 cm irreg. (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Antwerp, Flanders

Catalogue/s Raisonné
New Hollstein 200 i/ii; Bierens de Haan 227

Edition
1st of 2 states

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) u.r.: FF (monogram)
printed (diagonally) in ink (in image) l.l.: CICERO
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: AESCHINES / HORTENSIVS / ISOCRATES / DEMOSTHENES / QVINTILIANVS
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: RHETORICA
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: •4•
printed in ink l.c.l.: RHETORICÆ GRATOS SERMONI ASTVTA COLORES, / QVO DVLIVS FLVAT IS AVREIS, ADVCIT.

Accession Number
1278.223-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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Subjects (general)
Allegory and Symbols Human Figures Philosophy, Scholarship, Learning and Teaching

Subjects (specific)
discussions (events) men (male humans) reproductive prints Rhetoric (allegorical character) rhetoric (discipline) seated figures women (female humans)

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