[Schema seu speculum principum]. Litterae [graphic] / I.Stradan. figura. ; Ioa[n] Sadeler scalp.

New Hollstein title: Arts
British Museum title: Learning

[Venice] : [Jan Sadeler and Raphael Sadeler], [1597]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 222 x 275 mm

paper

Center, Apollo, wearing a laurel crown and holding a lyre, seated before a tree; at his feet are symbols of learning, including a pair of compasses, a treatise on geometry and a lute; to left, students attend lectures, beyond, the nine Muses sit at the foot of Mount Parnassus, Pegasus appears at the summit; to right, figures in a formal garden and a palace, in which a painter is at work. -- From British Museum cat.

One of a set of five allegorical engravings plus title page by Jan and Raphael Sadeler after Jan van der Straet: Arma, Litterae, Venatio, Nuptiae, and Pietas.

Publisher and place of publication from title page.

Date from title page dedication to Charles Emanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Philip II of Spain.

Three columns of Latin text below image.

Hollstein, F.W.H. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 535 (Johannes Sadeler I)
New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, 381 (Johannes Stradanus)

Italy -- Venice

ART 264806.3 (size S)