print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0208.18
- Title
- Object: Armand de Gontaud Baron de Biron
- Description
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Portrait of Armand de Gontaut, bust directed to right, with plain collar and armour; within oval, flanked by the standing figures of Apollo and Minerva, and with at the bottom Envy (or Discord) and Mars in shackles; the portrait is printed from a separate plate; illustration to Enrico Caterino Davila's "Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Francia", published by Jan Baptist Verdussen (Antwerp, 1686)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1660-1695 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 288 millimetres (border; platemark)
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Height: 116 millimetres (portrait; platemark)
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Width: 180 millimetres
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Width: 84 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of portrait prints made to illustrate Enrico Caterino Davila's "Historia de la Guerras Civiles de Francia" (1686). For the title page to the publication, and further comment, see 1868,0208.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0208.18
