Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25r
Notes:
Engraving by Philip Galle (1537–1612), after Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), Regina Pecunia [Antwerp, 1563]
Plate four of a series of six engravings entitled "Philosophia Practica." Queen Money's car is drawn by Danger and Fear, while Robbery hides under her cloak. She is followed by Pandemic, Folly, Envy, and Theft.
See Thomas Kerrich, A catalogue of the prints, which have been engraved after Martin Heemskerck (Cambridge, Eng., 1829), p. 86.
