print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1919,1014.48.1-105
- Title
- Object: Regum Daniae Icones
- Description
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Albertus Haelwegh, "Regum Daniae Icones Accurate expressae" (Copenhagen, Albert Haelwegh and Georg Holst) n.d. [1646]; containing 103 portraits of Danish kings and queens, shown bust-length in oval frames with accompanying inscriptions in Latin. Bound with engraved titlepage showing putti carrying cartouches with various royal arms, surrounding central title cartouche held up by an elephant, with royal arms and crown above, together with letterpress titlepage, dedication and accompanying text and verses in Latin, German, and Danish. Seventeenth-century vellum binding with MS title on spine.
Etchings and engraving
- Production date
- 1646
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (approx. platemark of each portrait print)
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Height: 287 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 105 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The pages containing portraits bear prints recto and verso. The rectos are printed directly with the portrait plate, but the versos have the portraits pasted in.
The German verses are by Adam Friedrich Werner, the Danish by Severin Terkelsen.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Regum Daniae Icones
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Acquisition notes
- MS inscription on fly-leaf: "J. F. Barth 1741"
Book-plate of Jens Wolff.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,1014.48.1-105
