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TITLE:  Temperance

CALL NUMBER:  FP - XVI - V633, no. 8 (A size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-18656 (digital file from original print)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water.

MEDIUM:  1 print : chiaroscuro woodcut, color ; 12 x 9.3 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1540 and 1610]

CREATOR:

Vicentino, Giuseppe Niccolo, b. ca. 1510, artist.

RELATED NAMES:

Andreani, Andrea, ca. 1560-1623.

NOTES:

Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28.

Attributed to Vicentino.

Republished by Andrea Andreani (1560-1623).

Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 8. DLC

Graphic sampler, p. 25, no. 8

SUBJECTS:

Mental states--1540-1550.
Temperance--1540-1550.
Cardinal virtues.

FORMAT:

Allegorical prints 1540-1610.
Chiaroscuro woodcuts Color 1540-1610.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original print) ppmsca 18656 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18656

CONTROL #:  2008678927


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