Alle de werken van Publ. Ovidius Naso
This is an edition of Ovid's collected works, published in Amsterdam in 1700 by the bookseller Pieter Mortier, with illustrations in the Dutch baroque engraving manner for a learned reading public. The pictures are small framed copperplate engravings of mythological scenes with clouds, gods, and figures in flowing drapery, showing how classical narrative was staged for an early eighteenth-century audience; a designer might take their dense hatching, cloud masses, and balanced groupings as models for historical or allegorical compositions.
