An auricular frame with an allegory of theatre, a trophy of arms encircling a bee hive, surmounted by a cockerel holding a caduceus, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam below

Details

• Title

  An auricular frame with an allegory of theatre, a trophy of arms encircling a bee hive, surmounted by a cockerel holding a caduceus, with the coat of arms of Amsterdam below

• Artist/maker

  Anonymous Dutch (printmaker)

• Associated place

  Europe › Netherlands › Holland › North Holland › Amsterdam (place of creation)

• Date

  1637

• Material and technique

  engraving on laid paper

• Object type

  visual representation › print

• Dimensions

  sheet 14.9 x 14.9 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Transferred from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1942.

• Museum location

  Western Art Print Room

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1942.54.10.2

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