Sibylla Europaea (Plate 11)

Sibylla Europaea (Plate 11)

Plate 11: European sibyl; seen from the front, head turned slightly to the right, with eyes raised to rays of light seen at upper right; holding a laurel branch in her right ahnd, and indicating to herself with her left hand; composition placed in a circle; the circular margin is lettered with Latin text; in the corners of the square frame encasing the circle are laurel branches on a cross-hatched background; around this square is a decorative border with floral flourishes; below the image, a cartouche, with a decorative border, containing four lines of Latin verse; copy after Crispijn de Passe. 1601-1612
Engraving

Jean Leclerc IV

1601-1612

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1889-0816-4-15

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