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Clemens VIII

Print
1598 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleClemens VIII (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print, portrait of Pope Clement VIII, engraving by Crispijn de Passe I, 1598.
Physical description
Print, portrait of a man, head and shoulders, facing slightly right, within an oval border with letters.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.7cm (cut)
  • Width: 9.5cm (cut)
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'CVP' (Signed with monogram)
  • 'Quas mihi…Palma / Illustrissimus Paschalis Ciconia Dux Venetorum. Anno Domini M D XCVIII. Fortiter Et Fideliter.' (Lettered with 6 lines of verse)
  • Stamp with the mark of the collection of Sydney Vacher (1854-1935) (Lugt 2376)
Credit line
Given by Edgar Seligman
Object history
This print is a plate from Effigies Regum Ac Principum…depictae, et tabellis aeneis incisae a Crispiano Passaeo Zelando, Cologne, 1598.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1960: Volume 2, Edgar Seligman Gift. London: HMSO, 1966.
  • Franken, Daniel. L’Oeuvre grave des Van De Passe. Amsterdam and Paris: F. Muller & Co., 1881.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1949.
Collection
Accession number
E.3015-1960

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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