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Object Type
Museum number: 1879,0510.452
Title: Object: De Guilielmo Caio Bredano, Pictori; Series: Pictorum Aliquot Celebrium Germaniae Inferioris Effigies
Description: Plate 20: Portrait of Willem Key, three quarter length, facing right; with a beard and a bonnet, holding a palette and some brushes; first state; from the first edition published by the widow of Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp in 1572. 1572 Engraving and letterpress
Producer name
School/style
Production date: 1572
Materials
Technique: engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 218 millimetres; Width: 122 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment on the series, see 1925,1117.120.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (2032.I) (Wierix); Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 / Les Estampes des Wierix ... catalogue raisonné (1746); Alvin 1866 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre des trois frères Jan, Jérome et Antoine Wierix (1961)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Willem Key; Associated with: Dominicus Lampsonius (author of Latin verses)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1879
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1879,0510.452

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