print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1895,1031.488
- Description
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Title-page to Thomas Compton-Carleton's 'Philosophia Universa' (Antwerp, 1649), showing Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria, seated on a throne under a canopy, surmounted by coat of arms, supported by angels; a boy in armour standing at left and a richly dressed boy at right, both leaning on shields supported by putti; attendants with weapons behind; two putti kneeling in foreground, pointing at a slab, with image of ?the Garden of Eden; after Abraham van Diepenbeeck; fourth state, before lettering on shields transposed and date altered.
Etching
- Production date
- 1665
- Dimensions
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Height: 331 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 206 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cut impression.
See 1872,1012.3264 for Diepenbeeck's preparatory drawing for the top section of the print.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Philosophia Universa
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,1031.488