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Summary
| Artist |
Schwarz, Christoph, ca. 1548-1592.; Sadeler, Jan, 1550-1600. |
| Description |
Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis. Engraving by Jan Sadeler I, after Christoph Schwartz. |
| Date | 1588/1595 |
| Medium | engraving |
| Dimensions | platemark 24.1 x 30.5 cm |
| Collection | print in the collection of the Wellcome Library |
| Accession number |
.b15247399 |
| Inscriptions | Huc ades optatis mecūque amplexibus artus Illiga; abest dū vir, dū metus ōnis abest. Pruer VII. Ne te seducat meretricis semita; solus De proprio pura at fonte fluēta bibe. Prouer: V. Ardēs in Venerē facit hoc, quod quē sitis urget Inuentis primò proluere ora vadis. Ecles: XXVI. S.B. Duc: chalcogr: Joā Sadeler author scalps: Christoph. Schwartz figuravit Monachii |
| References |
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, Amsterdam, Sadeler no. 492; Erwin Panofsky, Homage to Fracastoro in a Germano-Flemish composition of about 1590?, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1961, 12: 1-31, fig. 9 |
| Source/Photographer | Wellcome Library no. 524739i |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
PD-old |
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