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Summer
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Summer

Johann Sadeler (I) · 1580 · engraving; paper

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

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Summer. The female personification of the season of summer with two children in the center in the foreground in a summer landscape. On the right, birds are shot and hunted, on the left sheep are sheared, in the distance hay is being made. In the sky the constellations: Cancer, Leo and Virgo. In the inscription a verse of 4 lines in Latin.

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Credit lineZomer. 1580. Johann Sadeler (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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