The fountain of youth

Beschrijving

Representation visually divided in two: on the one side a loggia qieh bathing people below and music making personages above. On the right a fountain where elderly and people are entering to bathe to become healthy and young again. Below a Latin inscription: ‘Balnea Mundanae non ultima gaudia vitae…Circum ignem ducunt, multus quem scipio pascit.’. Signed below in the center:’Io. Theo de bry fe.’ monogrammed above on the right:’HSB’. On the verso Collector’s mark of D.U. Lugt 796.