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Design for Emblematic Frontispiece: "Natura Ars Emula Vincit"

A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on card; verso on mount: in pen and black ink (in later hand), elevation of a column.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on card; verso on mount: in pen and black ink (in later hand), elevation of a column.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Circle of Giovanni Guerra
Italian, 1544-1618

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Circle of Giovanni Guerra

Title

Design for Emblematic Frontispiece: "Natura Ars Emula Vincit"

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1544–1618

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, with traces of graphite, on tan laid paper, laid down on card; verso on mount: in pen and black ink (in later hand), elevation of a column

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, in drawing, in ink, upper left: "MEDI_"; upper center: "IHS"; upper right: "PHIL_"; upper center, left to right: "VS VITÆ ET VIRTVS VIRIVM"; middle left: "HOMOS"; middle right: "VIRTVS"; bottom center, left to right: "NATVRĀ ARS EMVLA VINCIT"; bottom left: "MATEM"; bottom right: "ASTRO"; inscribed in ink at base, below image (illegible)

Dimensions

28.5 × 18.7 cm (11 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.3874

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