Fishermen trapping fish in the Sea of Marmara with the aid of a look-out post. Engraving after A. Caron, 1615.

  • Caron, Antoine, 1521-1599.
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[1615]
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29860i
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Fishermen trapping fish in the Sea of Marmara with the aid of a look-out post. Engraving after A. Caron, 1615. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Letterpress verses in French below the engraving state that the world is a sea and a fishing ground, in which hearts are fish and desires are fishers. Pleasures are fish-hooks that catch languishing souls and cause their deaths

Publication/Creation

[Paris] : [Widow of Abel L'Angelier & M. Guillemot], [1615]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; sheet 23.1 x 18.4 cm

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References note

Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tom. V, Paris 1968, pp. 413-414 nos. 79-96

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Wellcome Collection 29860i

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One of a series of plates illustrating the Icones of Philostratus, some of which were signed by Jaspar Isac, including the title page. The present print is not signed, and if not by Isac, may be by Leonard Gaultier after A. Caron or by Thomas de Leu (Weigert, loc. cit.). De Leu was Caron's son-in-law and worked with the publisher Abel L'Angelier (Print quarterly, 2021, 38: 430-433)

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