Neptune presiding over a businessman making money through investment and a man drinking beer; representing the phlegmatic temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler.

  • Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.
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The god Mercury brings a sealed letter to the businessman, who is counting money. Neptune sits next to a boat containing a sundial, a barrel and a casket (the German text tells us that these are riches)

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Aug[usta] V[indicorum] [Augsburg] : Johann Michael Probst

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1 print : etching ; platemark 32 x 18.5 cm

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Phlegmaticus. Cui fortuna favet prœdam petitam habet,/ Mercator improbus divitias quœrit in undis ... Lettering continues: "Per mille pericla vitam exponere solet,/ Pectora quid auri sacra fames non cogit. Soll eine Handelschafft beglückt von statten gehen/ So muss man mit der Verstand und Geld sich wohl verstehen;/ und gibt Neptunus Glück auf ungestümen Meer,/ So bringt die Schiffarth leicht den grösten Reichthum her. Ioh. Dav. Nessenthaler. inv. del. et. sc. Ioh. Michael Probst exc. Aug. V. CPSCM. £ median folio no. 3"

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Wellcome Collection 26892i

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