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Page from "Emblemata nobilitate et vulgo scitu digna," (Frankfurt am Main, 1593)

Johann Theodor de Bry1593

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical rectangle. Proof before lettering. Three rectangular panels inserted on a strapwork background. The central panel shows an escutcheon of a helmet supported on intertwined acanthus leaves. The upper rectangle with rounded corners, as well as the lower rectangle, both have a nail-head border with projecting strapwork elements.

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  • Title: Page from "Emblemata nobilitate et vulgo scitu digna," (Frankfurt am Main, 1593)
  • Creator: Jan Theodor de Bry
  • Creator Lifespan: 1561/1623
  • Date Created: 1593
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
  • Medium: Engraving on white laid paper
  • Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux
  • Paper Support: White laid paper
  • Dimensions: Platemark: 14.1 x 9.6 cm (5 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.)Sheet: 14.9 x 10.4 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
  • Bibliography: Hollstein: Dut. & Flem. H. S. Hüsgen: Artistisches Magazin, enthaltend das Leben und die Verzeichnisse der Werke hiesiger und anderer Künstler (Frankfurt am Main, 1790), pp. 93–109 A. M. Hind, M. Corbett and M. Norton: Engraving in England in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: A Descriptive Catalogue with Introduction, 3 vols (Cambridge, 1952–64), i, pp. 124–37 Lambert Lombard et son temps (exh. cat. by L. Moyano, Liège, Mus. A. Wallon, 1966), pp. xlvii–l, 88–95 The European Vision of America (exh. cat. by H. Honour, Washington, DC, N.G.A.; Cleveland, OH, Mus. A.; Paris, Grand Pal.; 1975–7) The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time (New York, 1975) [based on 1975–7 exh. cat.]
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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