A woman standing in a market place, a scroll in her left hand, a caduceus in her right, while to her right a play is performed, to her left two men are debating; representing Rhetoric. Engraving after M. de Vos.

  • Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
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A woman standing in a market place, a scroll in her left hand, a caduceus in her right, while to her right a play is performed, to her left two men are debating; representing Rhetoric. Engraving after M. de Vos. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The caduceus is the instrument with which Hermes guides the dead to the underworld. It stands here for the Hermetic art of rhetoric or persuasion

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[Place of publication not identified] : Crispian d. Passe exc

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1 print : engraving ; image 14.3 x 8.8 cm

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Rhetorica. Si quid dicendum est, dico bene, verba colorans: quaelibet eloquio fit bona causa meo. Martin de Voss inve.

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Wellcome Collection 38935i

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