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Engraved oval emblem of a nude woman holding a flower sprig and a small object, with radiating lines behind her and the label 37 Beauty.

Beauty: nude woman with flower and mirror, emblem 37

A nude woman stands in an oval frame against radiating hatch lines, holding a flowering sprig in one hand and a small mirror or scissors-like object raised in the other. The fine engraved lines model her body and the ground, with a shadowed base beneath her feet, in the manner of a moral emblem plate.

Artist
Cesare Ripa
Date
1709
Medium
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3362 × 4000 px
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