Allegory of vanity (II) [print].

Accession number: 
PML 55623, plate 129 (lower)
Author: 
Reverdy, Georges, active 1529-1561, engraver.
Published: 
[15--]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; 101 x 166 mm
Credit: 
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes: 

Title from Bartsch; design lettered at head: QUOD VIDES NON DIU.
Attribution disputed; Bartsch lists the engraving among the doubtful works of Reverdy.
One of a series of four engravings, three containing allegorical vanitas figures and the fourth the Roman alphabet.

Provenance: 
Jacques Auguste de Thou (inscription), Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr., Henry S. Morgan.
Summary: 

A cartouche containing a representation of a woman looking in a hand-mirror within an oval frame.

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