print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: 1858,0417.1240
Description: Title-page with title written in a cartouche at centre, surmounted by a bust of a female personification of 'Politics' (or 'Wise Government') with mural crown, a winged genius ('Victory') with palm branch and laurel in top left corner, a buterfly-winged woman ('Universal Government') with a globe and rudder in top right corner, Minerva (as 'Wisdom') and Mercury (as 'Messenger of the King') flanking central cartouche and standing on bases with respectively an olive branch and an oak wreath, a scene with frolicking nude children below cartouche; proof before lettering; after Peter Paul Rubens; title to the 1666 Plantin edition of Frederik de Marselaer's "Legatus ad Philippum IV" (Antwerp: 1666) Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Galle the Younger (Galle, Cornelis II); After: Peter Paul Rubens
School/style
Production date: 1666 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 319 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
Curator's comments: For comment see 1895,1031.393.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed); Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (199.37); Corpus Rubenianum XXI / Rubens. Book Illustrations and Title Pages (84)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; politics; classical deity
Associated names: Illustration to: Frederik de Marselaer; Representation of: Athena/Minerva; Representation of: Hermes/Mercury
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1858
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1858,0417.1240

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