The Fates with Necessity, deciding the lot of seven infants from the towns of Salas and Lara (?): P.1844-1991

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Titles

The Fates with Necessity, deciding the lot of seven infants from the towns of Salas and Lara (?)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Entities

Print

Categories

Print

Description

Temporary record

Legal notes

Bequest of Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1501

School or Style

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of laid paper
Plate Height 177 mm Width 202 mm
Sheet Height 177 mm Width 202 mm

Techniques used in production

Inscription or legends present

Text: 1
Location: Image upper right
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Number

Text: 2
Location: Image upper left
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Number

Text: 3
Location: Image lower left
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Number

Text: 4
Location: Image lower right
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Number

Text: La Necessidad (1) con su martillo fatal y sus clauos de / Diamante manda alas tres Parcas (2) Cloto, Lachesis, y / Atropos sus hijas, que hilen siete hilos vitales para las / vidas delos 7. Infantes, que estan para nascer enel estado / de Salas (3) y Lara (4), mas que los hilen delicados y cortos, / porque assi estaua ordenado del hado Supremo.
Location: Plate lower left
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Inscription

Inscription present: number within a circle

Text: 1
Location: Plate lower centre
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Number

Text: Necessitas (1) malleo fatali, clauisque instructa / adamantinis, filias suas Parcas (2), septem parare / iubet fila, pro Septem fratribus in terra / Salas (3) et Lara (4) nascituris; sed illa breuia / et tenuia, quòd sic in fatis esset.
Location: Plate lower right
Method of creation: Printed
Type: Inscription

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.1844-1991
Primary reference Number: 93964
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 30 September 2019

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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