Author: Clouwet, Peter (1629-1670) after Quellinus, Erasums (1607-1678)
Title: OBRAS DE LORENZO GRACIAN. (Tomo II)
Description: Engraved frontispiece to the second volume of a collection of works by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658), known as Baltasar Gracián. The author was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. Before a niche seven characters surround a stone on which the title of the collection is engraved: 'OBRAS / DE / LORENZO / GRACIAN. / Tomo II.' Among these figures are Athena on the left, Mars, Justice and Rebecca with the camel. In the foreground the three ages of men. Signed on the bottom left: 'E. Quelinus delin. P. Clouwet sculp.' address of the publisher and year follow: 'En AMBERES, en casa de Geronijmo ij Iuanbautista Verdussen, 1669' l Engraving on paper, mounted on thicker paper; trimmed to plate mark; total: 223 x 167 mm; traces of glue have surfaced, especially above on the left; traces of inked letters [AE or F] on the bottom left, probably due to the storing of the pages with fresh

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