print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1868,0612.2053
- Title
- Series: The Seven Acts of Mercy and the Last Judgment
- Description
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The Last Judgment; angels and monsters in borderplate; in ornamental border exemplifying crafts and their tools; frontispiece to a set of seven plates showing the seven Acts of Mercy; after Maarten de Vos; first state published by Crispijn de Passe
Engraving
- Production date
- 1590-1637 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the frontispiece to a set of seven engravings showing the Acts of Mercy after Maarten de Vos (Hollstein 471-477). They were first published by the engraver Crispijn van de Passe; and subsequently by Adriaen Collaert, Theodoor Galle and Johannes Galle. All plates, except the frontispiece, are lettered with two lines of Latin in a cartouche below. For a complete set of the first edition, see 1868,0612.2046-2053; for the second edition (bound in an album; without the frontispiece) see 1948,0410.4.145-151.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed in black ink on the back: "from Strawberry Hill", a capital "OA", the year "1842" and the numbers "2-6"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0612.2053
