Augustus August (a bearded man holding a scythe and harvesting wheat in foreground, other farmers gathering wheat and ploughing in background; a maiden symbolizing Virgo in the sky) The Twelve Months
Printmaker:
Suyderhoef, Jonas
Publisher:
Sandrart, Joachim I von
Painter:
Sandrart, Joachim I von
(After)
From a series of 14 plates, after Joachim von Sandrart's Twelve Months and other allegories of time for Schleissheim palace, near Munich, commissioned for Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. The Latin text is by Caspar Barlaeus and the Dutch by Joost van den Vondel.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1816) by Fitzwilliam, Richard, 7th Viscount
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1645
Accession number: 30.K.9-13
Primary reference Number: 238753
Hollstein (Dutch/Flemish): 13 ii/ii
Dutuit: 115
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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