Giovanni Battista Ferrari

DC 2296

Allegorical scene

In the foreground the she-wolf and Romulus und Remus. Three Hesperides, holding fruit branches, are sitting in a sea shell boat drawn by three water sprites. Two putti are pouring nectar and ambrosia over them. God with a lyre and a capricorn is sitting above them on a cloud.

Coloured copper engraving, after Franciscus Albanus (del.), engraved by Cornelius Bloemaert, from Ferrari, G.B. "Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu ...", Rome 1646, 28,5 x 20 cm.

EURO 450,-

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