Frontispiece from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660

1660
Not on view
A statue of Junius Juvenal holding a scroll, standing on a pedestal lettered with his name. Fame flies in from the left blowing a trumpet, draped with a cloth lettered "Mores Hominu / The Manners / of Men." Sixteen satyrs are shown in the foreground and middle ground, with woods behind. A frontispiece to Robert Stapylton's "Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal" (London: 1660).

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  • Title: Frontispiece from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Robert Streater (British, London 1621–1679 London)
  • Author: Related author Robert Stapylton (British, active 1669)
  • Subject: Decimus Junius Juvenal (Aquinum 55/60?–?127/140)
  • Date: 1660
  • Medium: Etching: only state
  • Dimensions: Plate: 11 11/16 × 8 1/8 in. (29.7 × 20.7 cm)
    Sheet: 12 1/16 × 8 7/8 in. (30.6 × 22.5 cm)
    cut into blank margin at bottom; margins outside platemark at top and sides
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.1.35
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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