illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1858,0626.191.1-61
- Description
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'Effigies regum Francorum omnium, a Pharamundo, ad Henricum usque tertium, ad vivum, quantum fieri potuit, expressae; Accessit epitome chronikōn, eorum vitas, et gesta breviter complectens'; illustrated book written by and engraved/etched by Virgil Solis and Jost Amman, in Latin; bound in gold tooled red leather; containing engraved/etched title-page by Amman, and sixty-two full-page plates of Kings of France, each with a portrait in a medallion in an ornamental border and a memorable event of the king's life below in a cartouche; twenty-two of those plates are etched/engraved by Solis and have his monogram; the rest of the plates by Amman; plate XXXIX pasted; letterpress text (Nuremberg, Katharina Gerlach, 1576).
- Production date
- 1576
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres (book)
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Width: 154 millimetres (book)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Effigies regum Francorum omnium, a Pharamundo, ad Henricum usque tertium, ad vivum, quantum fieri potuit, expressae
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1858,0626.191.1-61
