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Ceres seeking her daughter
1610
Medium
engraving
Measurements
29.2 × 23.8 cm (image) 31.6 × 24.4 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rome, Italy
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 5 (vol. VIII, p. 155); Nagler p. 34; Dutuit 6; Wurzbach 5; Reitlinger 6; Le Blanc 6
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Dum frugum genitrix, tædas accendit in Ætna, / Et toto natam quærit in orbe suam, / Victa siti conspexit anum, Limphamgue Rogauit / Orante Limpham rustica dutee dedit. / AElsheimer pinxit.
printed in ink c.: Scipioni Burghesio / S.R.E. / Cardinali amplijsimo in deuoti animi tistimonium HGoudt (HG monogram) sculpsit et dicauit Romæ 1610
printed in ink l.r.: Janus Rutgers
Accession Number
1278.195-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Subjects (general)
Another Work Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
boys Ceres (Roman deity) deities drinking hospitality night reproductive prints women (female humans)
Movements
Baroque