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Nova Alphati

Engraving
1590-1600 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Theodor De Bry (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Germany (Published)
Netherlands (Published)

Engraving


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Engraving
TitleNova Alphati (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Theodor de Bry. Plate from a suite of 24 plates of letters from the alphabet entitled 'Nova Alphati'. Germany or the Netherlands, 1590-1600.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 16.9cm
  • Cut to width: 15.4cm
Bibliographic references
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no.42.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951): vol. 4, nos.30-123.
  • Peter Ward Jackson, Some Main Streams and Tributaries in European Ornament from 1500 to 1750, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1969, 10.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1912, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1913
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2431-1912

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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