L0035394 Plate illustrating a personification of ‘Beauty’

L0035394 Plate illustrating a personification of ‘Beauty’
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Plate engraving illustrating a personification of ‘Beauty’. The figure has her head in the cloud (symbolising that nothing is impossible) and is surrounded by a splendour of light. One hand holds a lily (symbolising the senses) and the other a ball and compass (symbolising beauty as consisting of measure and proportion).
Engraving
1709 By: Isaac Fuller and Pierce TempestIconologia: or, moral emblems …. Wherein are express’d various images of virtues, vices, passions, etc. as design’d by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians … / illustrated with … humane figures, with their explanations; newly design’d, and engraven … by I. Fuller … and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest
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Printed: 1709

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