Warning against venereal disease Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo Fracastoro) shows the shepherd Syphilus and the hunter Ilceus a statue of Venus to warn them against the danger of infection with syphilis
Printmaker:
Sadeler, Jan I
Draughtsman:
Schwarz, Christoph
(After)
To the left, a fountain with a statue of Venus and Cupid, and below a seated woman playing a lute. In the centre, an old man identified by Erwin Panofsky as the poet Fracastoro holding his poem 'Syphilis sive morbus gallicus'; below a dog urinating in the stream. On the right, a man identified by Panofsky as Syphilus, bent over drinking from the same stream and another man holding a spear, standing behind him, identified by Panofsky as the Syrian hunter Ilceus. The Latin verses below are spoken by the seated woman, Fracastoro and Ilceus.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
16th Century
Circa
1588
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Circa
1595
Accession number: 23.I.3-634
Primary reference Number: 144734
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 492
Wurzbach: 129
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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