Allegorie op de handel met Mercurius, Leonhard Heckenauer, after Johann Heiss, 1660 - 1704

Title(s)

Allegorie op de handel met Mercurius

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1906-1965

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 142

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘1118 38 Jabinetto Verde pnd: alla M[...]’

Description

Op het gordijn zijn de letters No en Ba gedrukt.

Artist

• print maker: Leonhard Heckenauer (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Johann Heiss (mentioned on object)

Place

Augsburg

Dating

1660 - 1704

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 212 mm × width 151 mm

What

• specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Mercury; Mercury as patron
• allegory of trade; 'Commertio della vita humana' (Ripa)
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• shore-birds and wading-birds: crane
• bee-hive
• the nymphs fill the horn of the goat Amalthea with flowers and fruits; it thus becomes the Cornucopia

Acquisition

purchase 1906

Copyright

Public domain

• Leonhard Heckenauer II to Stephan Hermann, dl. 13, p. 63, cat.nr. 142