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The Council Meeting (from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660)

1660
Not on view
Thirteen men, including an emperor sitting on a throne beneath a canopy, are seated at a round table, on which lies a giant fish; a man kneels in the foreground, hands over a smaller fish to a Black man; at right a tower can be seen outside the window beyond the ballustrade; illusttrates Robert Stapylton, 'Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs,' by Juvenal.

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  • Title: The Council Meeting (from Robert Stapylton, Mores Hominum–The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs, by Juvenal, 1660)
  • Etcher: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After Johan Danckerts (Dutch, 1615–1681/87)
  • Author: Associated with Robert Stapylton (British, active 1669)
  • Subject: Decimus Junius Juvenal (Aquinum 55/60?–?127/140)
  • Date: 1660
  • Medium: Etching; second state of two
  • Dimensions: Plate: 11 11/16 × 8 in. (29.7 × 20.3 cm)
    Sheet: 11 15/16 × 8 13/16 in. (30.3 × 22.4 cm)
    cut into blank margin at bottom; margins outside platemark at top and sides
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.1.38
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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