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Vignette with Poetry with lyre and swan in a landscape with frame
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Vignette with Poetry with lyre and swan in a landscape with frame

Leendert Brasser · 1727 - 1793 · etching; engraving; paper

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

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Vignette with female personification of Poetry playing a lyre on the bank of a watercourse in a southern landscape. Behind her stands a pedestal with a relief of Bellerophon defeating the Chimaera, a swan on the bank spreads its wings. In a small medallion Truth is represented. Winding around a border are a garland and a scroll with the motto Studium scientiarum genitrix.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printwater-birds: swan'Poesia' (Ripa)(story of) Bellerophon
Credit lineVignet met Poëzie met lier en zwaan in landschap met omlijsting. 1727 - 1793. Leendert Brasser. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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