Allegorical scene with truth, a female personification, seated at centre and reading a biblical quotation while holding up a flaming lamp; flanked by opinion as an old, bespectacled man in a hooded robe with a lamp standing on a pile of books; and falsehood, an old hag clutching snakes and lobsters, who tramples lies, a half-skeletal creature clutching an orb in lower right; above two putti hold a palm and wreath and a scroll lettered "veritas vincit omnia"; after maarten de vos. Print published in antwerp by godevaard van haecht and willem van haechtx who also composed the text. Design by maarten de vos engraved by johannes wierix. Date: 1579. Dimensions: height: 44 cm (17.3 in); width: 34.5 cm (13.5 in). Medium: engraving. Collection: British Museum. Johannes Wierix, Marten de Vos (After) - Triumphus Veritatis (The triumph of Truth)
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