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Table setting for the wedding of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves and Jacobe...

Frans Hogenberg1587

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Full title: Table setting for the wedding of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves and Jacobe, Margravine of Baden

The sugar sculptures of mythic, natural, and heraldic animals serve as ornaments for the banquet table in the great hall of the castle at Düsseldorf.

Caption: In plate’s lower margin, poem in quatrain: Nach verrichtem Mahll ghalden tantz / Ein Thiss war zugerichtet gantz / Mit Zuckerwerck herlieh besetzt / ...

Part of the book, "Beschreibung derer fürstlicher güligscher &c. Hochzeit : so im Jahr Christi tausent fünffhundert achtzig fünff, am sechszehenden Junij vnd nechstfolgenden acht Tagen, zu Düsseldorff mit grossen Freuden, fürstlichen Triumph vnd Herrligkeit gehalten worden" by Theodor Graminaeus

Getty Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/86b22668_pl7
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/beschreibungdere00gram/mode/2up

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  • Title: Table setting for the wedding of Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves and Jacobe...
  • Creator: Franz Hogenberg
  • Date Created: 1587
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