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Allegorical subject with description in Dutch, French and German

Print
1579
Artist/Maker
Francken, Ambrosius (designer)

Object details

Object type
Print
TitleAllegorical subject with description in Dutch, French and German
Materials and techniques
Paper (Fiber Product)
Printing Ink
Engraving (Printing Process)
Dimensions
  • Height: 42cm (Note: Size of album)
  • Width: 56cm (Note: Size of album)
  • Depth: 3.2cm (Note: Size of album)
  • Height: 20.3cm (Note: Taken from the Register of Engravings 1902 to 1904)
  • Width: 26cm (Note: Taken from the Register of Engravings 1902 to 1904)
  • Height: 20.3cm (Note: Taken from Register of Engravings 1902-1904)
  • Width: 26cm (Note: Taken from Register of Engravings 1902-1904)
Marks and inscriptions
  • (In the address Ph[i]l[lip]s removed and replaced with Theodorus.)
  • gecott:13 Septb: 1753 (Inscribed in ink inside the back cover of the binding.)
    Translation
    ? Collated 13 September 1753
  • Nova Reperta & Alia (Lettered on the spine)
    Translation
    New Inventions of Modern Times & Other
Object history
Contained in an album with an early 18th-century Dutch binding, possibly from the 'Double Drawer Handle' bindery in Amsterdam (active 1697-1742?), see Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, 2006, vol I, p.228
The album contains four sets of prints and two singletons with museum numbers E.1228-1267-1904.
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1259-1904

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O866582/allegorical-subject-with-description-in-print-francken-ambrosius/
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