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Artist
- Name:
- Français, François-Louis
- Dates:
- 1814-1897
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Hart (Solomon?)
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- the Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Paul et Virginie
- Author(s):
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri
- Publisher:
- Paris: Léon Curmer, 1838
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Decorative border made of leaves, flowers and fruit, inside which is written an excerpt of Horace’s Ode 1.3. The full stanza reads:
Sic te diva potens Cypri,
Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,
Ventorumque regat pater
Obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga
Which can be understood as:
Thus the powerful goddess of Cyprus,
Thus the brothers of Helen, bright stars,
And the father of winds guide you,
With others confined except for Iapyx
Keywords: 1830s, 19th century, black & white, border, cartouche, foliage, fruit
