An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.

  • Streater, Robert, 1624-1680.
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[1660]
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38992i
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An episode in Juvenal's satire XII: in thanks for the escape of their mutual friend Catullus from a shipwreck, Juvenal shows to Corvinus a votive painting depicting Catullus's survival, while putti prepare to sacrifice animals as thank-offerings to the gods. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2023 : Two men discussing a painting of a ship in a storm, in the background a boy is trying to kill a cow, while another is dragging sheep towards statues of gods and goddesses; above, Chronos holding a sickle; representing the omnipresent threat to life. Etching by W. Hollar after R. Streater.

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Juvenal prepares to sacrifice a lamb to Juno, a similar sacrifice to Minerva, and a calf to Jupiter as he and his witness Corvinus look at a votive painting of the shipwreck from which Catullus (not the poet of that name) had escaped. Left, statues of Minerva, Jupiter and Juno, with Ceres above. The votive painting shows Catullus and his crew throwing overboard his cargo of precious goods in order to lighten the load as their ship takes in water

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[London] : [printed by R. Hodgkinsonne], [1660]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 27.7 x 20 cm

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Streter inv. W. Hollar fecit.

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Wellcome Collection 38992i

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