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Amor docet Musicam (Love teaches Music), recto / Het schaep dient voor den dam geschut (The sheep must be stopped before the dam), verso / Unknown artist [artwork]

Amor docet Musicam (Love teaches Music), recto / Het schaep dient voor den dam geschut (The sheep must be stopped before the dam), verso [artwork]

Title: Amor docet Musicam (Love teaches Music), recto / Het schaep dient voor den dam geschut (The sheep must be stopped before the dam), verso [artwork]
Artist: Unknown artist
Genre: artwork
Date Created: 1712
Physical Description: Sheet: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (19.1 x 26.7 cm.); plate impression: 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (13.3 x 13.3 cm.)
Artist notes: who has reworked an engraving possibly by Crispin van den Queborne, painter and engraver, 1604-1652, based on an original design by Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, painter and draughtsman, 1589-1662
Artist nationality: Unknown
Original artist: Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662
Inscription: Recto: bottom center: (within engraving, in Greek) ???s??? e??? d?d?s?e? [Love teaches Music] ; l. l.: (in pencil) Date 1626 ; bottom center: (in pencil) Flutes etc Date 1626
Medium: Engraving.
Condition: Engraving itself and sheet in very good condition, but engraving has been trimmed slightly into the plate impression at the top edge. Vertical crease about 1 1/4 inches from left edge of support sheet, where once folded. Adhesive tape stains at upper and lower corners of left edge of support sheet. There is another plate on the verso of this image - a farmer tending his sheep - which has been glued to the support sheet.
Provenance: The Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 8 Aug. 1923.
Instrument: Panpipes, Lute, Bass viol
Related names: Queborne, Crispin van den, 1604-1652; Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660
Century: 18th century
Subjects: Literary source; Music lesson
Miller category: Works of art - - Groups of Musicians including Processions
Miller ID: 0015/M
Repository: Music Division, Library of Congress

Last Updated: 07-07-2010

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