AN OAK RELIEF CARVED MYTHOLOGICAL PANEL

AN OAK RELIEF CARVED MYTHOLOGICAL PANEL

LATE 16TH CENTURY

after a woodcut engraving of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Virgil Solis (German 1514-1562), depicting Orpheus playing his lyre charming the wild beasts, accompanied by a unicorn, a lion, a bull, a squirrel, birds, cherubs, a monkey, a ram, a fox, a bear and a deer in a wooded landscape, with a lozenge and stylised scroll work three-quarter border

40 x 76.8cm

Provenance

The Estate of the late Jane Sumner.