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Silver Age
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Silver Age

1589 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Depiction of life during the Silver Age: scantily clad men plow and sow, and build huts. In the clouds the god Jupiter. On the right in the foreground the goddess Ceres with a cornucopia. Below the image two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the first series.

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Credit lineZilveren Eeuw. 1589. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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