A Mare Inseminated by Zephyr
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Title
A Mare Inseminated by Zephyr
Subject
Horses in art
Description
Engraving of a mare standing with its back, left side towards the viewer on a rocky seaside cliff opening its mouth to inhale the wind of Zephyr. Three horses in the top right corner gallop away from the mare. The horse is explicitly identified as a mare as opposed to a stallion by its clear depiction of the vulva (the anal opening would be situated higher up, directly below the dock of the tail). The subject and inscription are of classical origins- Virgil, Georgica, III, 273-76.
Inscriptions:
Signature and address at bottom right: "Ioannes Stradanus inventor. / Ph[i]l[lp]s Galee excudit."
Four lines of Latin in two columns in lower margin: "Ore omnes verae in Zephyrum stant rupibus altis, / Exceptantque leves auras, et Saepe, Sine ullis / Coniugiis, vento gravidae, per inhospita saxa / Diffugiunt, scopulosque et depressas convalles."
Engraved by Wierix, Jeronimus (1553-1619) and published by Galle, Philippe (1537-1612).
Inscriptions:
Signature and address at bottom right: "Ioannes Stradanus inventor. / Ph[i]l[lp]s Galee excudit."
Four lines of Latin in two columns in lower margin: "Ore omnes verae in Zephyrum stant rupibus altis, / Exceptantque leves auras, et Saepe, Sine ullis / Coniugiis, vento gravidae, per inhospita saxa / Diffugiunt, scopulosque et depressas convalles."
Engraved by Wierix, Jeronimus (1553-1619) and published by Galle, Philippe (1537-1612).
Creator
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605
Publisher
Galle, Philippe (1537-1612)
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Tufts University, Tisch Library
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Tufts University, Tisch Library
Date
1580
Contributor
Wierix, Jeronimus (1553-1619)
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Language
lat
Type
image
Identifier
Call Number: ER/2762
PID: bdh0000043254 http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000043254
PID: bdh0000043254 http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/detalle/bdh0000043254
Coverage
16th Century
Netherlands
School/Style: Dutch
Netherlands
School/Style: Dutch
Citation
Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605, “A Mare Inseminated by Zephyr,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed May 18, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/221.