Giovanni Battista Ferrari

DC 2196

Allegorical scene

A noble garden with citrus plants, in the background a palace in the sun. In the foreground two men are planting trees, some ladies (?Hesperides) with cirtus fruits in their hands behind them, beside a noble herald.

Coloured copper engraving, after Guido Reni (Guido Rhen del.), engraved by Johann Friedrich Greuter, from Ferrari, G.B. "Hesperides sive de Malorum Aureorum Cultura et Usu ...", Rome 1646, 30,5 x 21 cm.

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