A Letter of Condolence (from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660)

1660
Not on view
Two men, wearing laurel wreath, standing in a temple at an altar below the statue of Jupiter, a boy at right holding up a thurible, from which smoke of incense is rising; a man kneeling in foreground at right, conversing with a man and touching his toga, another man standing behind; illustrates Robert Stapylton, "Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs," by Juvenal.

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  • Title: A Letter of Condolence (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: Associated with Robert Stapylton (British, active 1669)
  • Subject: Decimus Junius Juvenal (Aquinum 55/60?–?127/140)
  • Date: 1660
  • Medium: Etching; second state of two
  • Dimensions: Plate: 11 5/8 × 8 in. (29.5 × 20.3 cm)
    Sheet: 11 15/16 × 8 3/4 in. (30.4 × 22.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.1.49
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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