print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1928,0716.58
- Title
- Object: Bernard de Girard Sr du Haillan historiographe de France
- Description
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Portrait of Bernard de Girard, bust directed to right and looking to front, with small beard and moustache, and wearing buttoned doublet with ruff; in lettered oval; on verso, the title page, with publisher's emblem consisting of a snake rising from a fire and biting a hand emerging from a cloud, in decorative frame with publisher's monogram at top, and the motto: "Si Deus pro nobis quis contra nos"; illustration to Girard's "L'Histoire de France" (Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1576)
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1576 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 227 millimetres (oval; portrait)
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Height: 114 millimetres (size of emblem)
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Width: 174 millimetres
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Width: 88 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: L'Histoire de France
- Acquisition date
- 1928
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1928,0716.58