print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: 1878,0914.50
Description: Plate 1: Frontispiece with title written on a stone tablet on which an angel blows the trumpet at centre, at right a woman representing 'Judaism' and holding the Law, allegorical scenes showing the Vices and David's sacrifice at middle right, Mount Sinai in right background, at left an angel holding the Bible, with allegorical scenes showing the Virtues at middle left, the Apostles in left foreground; frontispiece to fourth edition of "Icones Biblicæ" (Amsterdam: 1747). c.1708 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Jan Luyken; Published by: Frans Houttuyn
School/style
Production date: 1708 (but published in 1747)
Production place: Published in: Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 343 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 437 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is the frontispiece (with Latin and French title) to the fourth edition of a series of sixty-two plates showing Old and New Testament scenes (of which sixty-one by Jan Luyken); first published in Amsterdam by Pieter Mortier in 1708. The fourth edition was published by Frans Houtteyn in 1747.
Bibliographic references: Luyken 1905 / Het Werk van Jan en Caspar Luyken (3692); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (429)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: old testament; new testament; virtues and vices
Associated names: Representation of: Vices; Representation of: King David; Representation of: Apostles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Acquisition notes: Inscribed by Anderdon on verso, in pen and brown ink: "H Anderdon 15. Nov. 1827"
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1878,0914.50

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