A woman giving birth, calling out to the Roman goddess Lucina. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 15--.

  • Bonasone, Giulio, approximately 1498-approximately 1580.
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[between 1500 and 1599]
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652851i
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A woman giving birth, calling out to the Roman goddess Lucina. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 15--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Four women are in attendance, one of them aged, with a stick

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1500 and 1599]

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 13.8 x 10.4 cm

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Celeste dea del parto, alma Lucina, / Principio e causa de ogni ben fecondo / che informi e serbi e che perpetui 'l mondo / Sia a noi propitia tua bontà divina. I. Bonasone inventor.

Edition

Massari's state I of II.

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Leipzig 1854-1870, vol XV, p. 82, no. 129

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Wellcome Collection 652851i

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