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Summer (Aestas)
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Summer (Aestas)

Jacob Matham · 1589 · engraving; paper

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

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Personification of Summer: a standing man with sheaves of corn in a landscape. In the background mowing figures and a sun half behind a hill. At the top the corresponding signs of the zodiac: Virgo, Leo and Cancer.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printsummer, 'Aestas''Estate' (Ripa)
Credit lineZomer (Aestas). 1589. Jacob Matham. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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