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Fortuna (Roman deity)

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Images featuring Fortuna (Roman deity)

5 images from works
  • Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome. Engraving.
  • Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome. Coloured etching.
  • A surgeon removing a plaster from a man's back, with five people looking on. Oil painting attributed to Adriaen Rombouts, 16--.
  • A woman wearing a crown and a dress covered with the letter F, walks inside an open loggia where she is followed by two men; representing Fortune. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after an unidentified artist.
  • The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.

Works from the collections

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    Five people on a terrace above steps, with a dog; the personification of fortune below; representing proverbs (?). Etching and mezzotint by F. Bartolozzi after Annibale Carracci.

    Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609. | Date: [1765] | Reference: 2497884i
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    Temple of Vesta or Fortuna Virilis, Rome. Engraving.

    | Reference: 22607i
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    A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.

    Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733. | Date: [1720?] | Reference: 812283i
    Part of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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    The comedian James Spiller is selling tickets under a giant set of scales which is weighing the actor's debts against his proceeds from theatre tickets. Etching by T. Cook, 1808, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: Apr. 1st 1808 | Reference: 579403i
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    A surgeon removing a plaster from a man's back, with five people looking on. Oil painting attributed to Adriaen Rombouts, 16--.

    Rombouts, Adriaen, active approximately 1640-after 1667. | Date: [1647?/1667] | Reference: 500931i

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