[Four parts of the day]

Folger bibliographic ID: 232195
Folger call number: ART Vol. e272 no.17-20
Folger holdings ID: 280645
Accession Number: 265422.2

A set of four allegorical prints depicting dawn, noon, evening, and night. Each print features a large allegorical figure, usually on top of clouds, and a smaller landscape scene appropriate for the time of day, with two lines of Latin text below. Aurora is a hunting and fishing scene; Meridies features farmers resting underneath a tent; Vespera shows men trapping birds by the light of a lantern; Nox features owls with the allegorical figure and, in the landscape, revellers holding torches and playing instruments

General notes

Set title devised by cataloger The first plate, Aurora, signed "I. Le Clerc excu." Jean Leclerc was active in Paris

Item information about Folger ART Vol. e272 no.17-20

Bound in contemporary vellum; signed "Ca. Crubel" on front cover; 'J? Harmy? 1629' with manuscript price 'couste 40 sols' on front endleaf; 'Joannes Crubel?' on rear endleaf. Bound with two other sets published by Jean Le Clerc: XII. Sibyllae, ordine, inscriptione & forma elegantiori quàm antehac vmquam and Heaven, purgatory and hell

Hunting Sunrises & sunsets Night Owls

publisher: Leclerc, Jean, active 1573-1627