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A seated woman with a scroll and two books, holding a caduceus; representing Rhetoric. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
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A seated woman with a scroll and two books, holding a caduceus; representing Rhetoric. Engraving by H. Goltzius.

Hendrik Goltzius

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Lettering: Rhetorice fontes, luculentaque verba ministrat ore manusque docens gestus formare decoros, hymnosque et peana canens polyhymnia lectum, aonias inter minime postrema sorores. F.E., H.G. fecit.

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