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- Title:
The Brazen Age
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 × 15 1/8 inches (27.9 × 38.4 cm), Plate: 9 13/16 × 13 7/8 inches (24.9 × 35.2 cm), Image: 9 3/16 × 13 13/16 inches (23.3 × 35.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, center left: "#95"
Lettered, lower left: "F. Verdier delin | Virtue languising! is represented by Minerva leaning on the knees of Industry, & the | Indolence of the Sciences shews the barreness of this Age. Regal Power holding a | Golden rod & supported by the strength & solidity of Government who come to their | Assistance & command Plenty to bestow Riches upon Arts & sciences. near mount"; lettered, lower center: "The BRAZEN AGE"; lettered, lower right: "J. Simon fecit | Parnassus, Poetry, Sculptur, & Geometry attend their Favours. Painting Architec | ture, & Comedy are half buried. Melpomene the Muse of Tragedy seems inactive | & the Genius's sleeping are Symbols of Drowsiness & ye disregard of Knowledge."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1163
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:23008
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