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Orpheus: the element earth
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Landscape with Orpheus playing the fiddle, as an allegory on the element earth. He is surrounded by the animals that came to his music. In the margin a four-line poem, in two columns, in Latin. First print from a series with the four elements.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineOrpheus: het element aarde. 1602. Crispijn van de Passe (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
