The forge of Vulcan: he sits by the forge as his assistants work on iron at the anvil. Engraving by Georges Reverdy.

  • Reverdy, Georges, active 16th century.
Date:
1500-1599
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29880i
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Left, Venus and Cupid. Right, Hephaestus (Vulcan) talking to a woman or goddess. Centre, men working at a forge, identified in the lettering (following Virgil) as Cyclopes, though the two facing the front have two eyes. Left background, flames rising from a volcano, representing Aetna in Sicily or the Aeolian Isles near Sicily

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1 print : engraving ; sheet 15 x 18.5 cm

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Ferrum exercebant vasto cyclopes in antro. Greuerdinus f. Lettering: quotation from Virgil, Aeneid VIII, 424

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, vol. XV, Vienna 1813, p. 477, no. 20 ("La forge de Vulcain. Les Cyclopes travaillant dans la forge de Vulcain que l'on voit assis à droite, et parlant avec une déesse. Vénus arrive du côté gauche, précédée par l'Amour. Au bas de l'estampe est écrit à gauche: C.Reuerdinus f., et au milieu: Ferrum exercebant uasto cyclopes in antro. Largeur: 6p. 10 lig. Hauteur: 5 p. 6 lig.")

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Wellcome Collection 29880i

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