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Object Type
Museum number: 1874,0110.446
Title: Object: Nuptiae; Series: Schema seu speculum principum
Description: Nuptials; in the foreground, a youth, wearing a garland of flowers and holding a flaming torch; to left, various symbols of marriage including, a canopied bed, a table laid for a feast and two chests filled with items from a dowry; to left, a procession passes by a church; to right, a tournament and a feast are in progress Engraving
Producer name: After: Jan van der Straet; Print made by: Raphael Sadeler I
School/style
Production date: 1597
Production place: Published in: Venice (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 221 millimetres (image size); Width: 283 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is one of a series of five, for comment see 1874,0110.448.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (383) (Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 / Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et inventor (704.4); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (203) (Raphael Sadeler I)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: allegory/personification; marriage/wedding
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1874
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1874,0110.446

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