Identification title(s): allegory of the truth that conquers envy. Object type: print print drawing object number: rp-p-ob-77. 449. Catalog reference: le. Blanc 20. Inscriptions / marks: collector's mark, verso, stamped: lugt 2228. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: maria catharina prestel, after a design by: jacopo ligozzi, publisher: johann gottlieb prestel. Date: 1781. Physical characteristics: print drawing in aquatint and etching in brown and black and enhanced with gold. Material: paper technique: etching / hand coloring / aquatint / picture drawing / color printing. Dimensions: top: h 310 mm (cut off within the plate edge) × w 225 mm (cut off within the plate edge) explanation number 24 from the picture album 'dessins des meilleurs peintres d'italie, d'allemagne, et des pays-bas, tirés de divers célebres cabinets. Gravés d'apres les originaux de même grandeur par jean théophile prestel'. Nuremberg: j. G. Prestel, 1783. Subject: what: truth; 'verità' (ripa) (+ allegorical scene, i. E. Two or more personifications involved in an action), envy; 'invidia' (ripa) ~ personification of one of the seven deadly sins. Acquisition: unknown 2006. Date: 1781.
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