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Alle de werken van Publ. Ovidius Naso

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D · 1700 · Amsteldam : By Pieter Mortier, Boekverkooper · 18 pictures

A 1700 Amsterdam edition of Ovid's collected works, published by bookseller Pieter Mortier and held by the Getty Research Institute, printed for a learned readership of classical literature. Its plates are full-page engravings of classical statues labelled with their names, such as Hercules, Jupiter, Mercury and Diana, each framed in a thin rectangle on a cream page with a plinth caption beneath, offering a designer clean, restrained models of draped and muscular antique figures in standing poses.

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