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Uncolored engraving depicting six medals or seals, with caption text in Latin. Bottom left seal shows a dolphin entwined about an anchor, forming an x shape with an oar with a cross-shaped handle behind it. With the text, "Festina Lente" ("make haste slowly", a motto often associated with the dolphin-anchor motif).
Captions indicate that these seals or medals are associated with members of the Medici family.
Page or plate 45 of the book "Symbola varia Diversorum Principum Sacrossane. Ecclesiae Et Sacre Imperij Romani," by Jacobus Typotius (1602). With text in Latin on verso.


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1602-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Sadeler, E.
ink; laid paper; mounting
12 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in
Czech Republic: Prague