Print Description
Orpheus (the famous hero), Abundantia (Roman goddess of abundance and prosperity) and Veritas (Greek Aletheia, goddess of truth).
Made by Jacques Louis Constant Lacerf after Leonard Defraine.
Medium: Handcoloured etching / engraving. on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 17.5 x 10.5 cm (6.89 x 4.13 inch). Image size: 16 x 10 cm. (6.3 x 3.94 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Two small stains in the image, some additional stains in the margins. Paper edges browned. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ORPHEUS-ABUNDANTIA-VERITAS-MYTHOLOGY-ROMAN | DPO-PCO-2-51
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This print originates from Lallement’s book ‘La Mythologie en Estampes, ou Figures des Divinites fabuleuses’ (Paris, 1811).
Biography engraver: Jacques Louis Lecerf (Le Cerf) was an eighteenth-nineteenth century French engraver. Jean-Florens Defraine (1754-?) was a French painter.
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