Engraved courtyard scene with a lute player, a fountain, children at play, and a robed man at a columned doorway.

Allegory of Relations between the Generations, engraving

An engraved print of a crowded courtyard: a couple in period dress, the man playing a lute, stand left beside a tiered fountain, while a robed figure at a columned doorway on the right receives visitors. Fine hatching models the architecture and figures, and rows of small inscriptions run along the lower edge beneath the scene.

Artist: Pieter Serwouters
Date: 1608
Medium: Etching and engraving on paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1306 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1608).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Manilow and the Henry M. Huxley Fund

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