impression:T17130

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T17130

Personification of Venus

(London, BM)

Details

printing: impression
engraving
paper
sheet h: 43 mm
sheet w: 29 mm

Matrices

Hans Sebald Beham (printmaker), Personification of Venus

Actors

Hans Sebald Beham (1500 - 22 November 1550) printmaker : ca 1539

Places

London, British Museum (1931,0511.14) storage place

Design

Hans Sebald Beham (printmaker), Personification of Venus Part of Beham's Personifications of Seven Planets ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇥ Crispin Scharffenberg (printmaker attr.), Personification of Venus I (Szarfenberg) Part of Personifications of Seven Planets (Szarfenberg) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Venus and her children (personification of the planet) (Iconclass: 24C215)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

References

Matrices' graphic catalogue entries

Bartsch: VIII.162.118
Hollstein German: III.74-75

Web resources

external link

Credits

Created on

2021-10-13 13:46

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-07-25 13:15)