Portret van Catharina Elisabeth Besser vastgehouden door Erato en Minerva, Christian Fritzsch, after Anna Maria Werner, 1732

Title(s)

Portret van Catharina Elisabeth Besser vastgehouden door Erato en Minerva

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1914-3013

Catalogue reference

• HAB A 1492

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Description

Aan weerszijden van Catharina Elisabeth hangt een portret. Het portret links draagt de naam 'Doris' en rechts de naam 'Laura'.

Artist

• print maker: Christian Fritzsch (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Anna Maria Werner (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

Place

print maker: Hamburg
publisher: Leipzig

Dating

1732

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 172 mm × width 116 mm

What

• historical persons - BB - woman
• serpent Ouroboros
• death's head, skull (symbol of Death)
• Erato (one of the Muses); 'Erato' (Ripa)
• Minerva as patroness
• grave-building, monumental tomb
• torch - BB - torch held upside down
• empty bird cage
• armorial bearing, heraldry
• Eurydice, while fleeing from Aristaeus, is killed by a snake

Who

• Catharina Elisabeth Besser

Acquisition

purchase 1905

Copyright

Public domain

• Die Porträtsammlung der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, cat.nr. A 1492