print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: 1891,0414.1030
Description: Title-page with title written in a rectangle on a Roman sepulchral altar, decorated with a fruit garland and surrounded by elements found on the coins from within the publication (tripod, lyre, snake curling around staff at left; a club and lion's skin and quiver at right), an eagle and other birds surmounting the monument; two griffins flanking the coat of arms of Archduke Albert of Austria below; title to Hubert Goltzius' "Graeciae universae Asiaeque Minoris et Insularum Nomismata" (Antwerp: 1618). c.1618 Engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Michel Lasne; Published by: Jacques de Bie
School/style: Flemish; French
Production date: 1618 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 278 millimetres; Width: 180 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For a later impression of this plate (re-used as title-page for Nonnius' 1620 commentary) see also 1857,0314.8 (Schneevoogt 200.47).
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (196.24); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (6) (Goltzius); Corpus Rubenianum XXI / Rubens. Book Illustrations and Title Pages (43); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (Lasne)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Illustration to: Hubert Goltzius; Associated with: Archduke Albert VII (dedicatee)
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1891,0414.1030

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