Engraving of a crowded scene with a robed figure raising his arms before a large globe, surrounded by scholars and onlookers, with Latin text along the bottom.

Temperance, from The Seven Virtues

A dense engraving of a crowded scene: a robed central figure with a tall hat raises his arms before a large spherical globe, while scholars, onlookers and figures at tables and stairs fill the composition. A Latin inscription runs along the bottom edge beneath the plate.

Artist: Philips Galle
Date: 1559
Medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1326 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1559).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

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Temperance, from The Seven Virtues

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