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print; title-page; frontispiece

Object Type: print; title-page; frontispiece
Museum number: 1943,0213.57.1-180
Title: Series: Theatrum pontificum, imperatorum, regum, ducum, principum, &c.
Description: Leather-bound volume containing one hundred seventy-seven portraits of 'foreign' (non-Flemish) illustrious people from the sixteenth and seventeenth century, including popes, emperors, royals, archdukes, military commandors, cardinals, admirals, archbishops; preceded by a title-page, allegorical frontispiece and dedication portrait to Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria; after numerous portrait paintings Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Pieter de Jode II; Print made by: Antoine Couchet; Print made by: Adriaen Lommelin; Print made by: Aegidius Rucholle; Print made by: Arnold Loemans; Print made by: Conraad Waumans; Print made by: Frederik Bouttats the Younger; Print made by: Adriaen Millaert; Print made by: Antonie van der Does; Print made by: Peeter Huybrechts; Print made by: Cornelis Meyssens; Print made by: Cornelis Galle the Younger; Print made by: Wenceslaus Hollar; After: Erasmus Quellinus; After: Abraham van Diepenbeeck; After: Otto van Veen; After: Titian; After: Jan Thomas; After: Anthony van Dyck; After: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Jan Van Den Hoecke; After: Pieter van Mol; After: Hendrik Berckmans; After: Frans Denys; After: Nicolaas van der Horst; After: Justus van Egmont; After: Gaspar de Crayer; Published by: Pieter de Jode II; Published by: Jan Meyssens; Published by: Gaspar de Hollander; Published by: Maarten van den Enden; Published by: Adriaen Possemiers
School/style
Production date: 1638-1651 (c.)
Production place: Published in: Antwerp (city)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 289 millimetres (sheet; approx.); Width: 220 millimetres (sheet; approx.)
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Curator's comments: This is a bound volume containing 180 plates, for comment on the series see 1872,0608.518. This volume is a compilation containing some late impressions of plates which were published later by other print publishers such as Gaspar de Hollander and Johannes Meyssens amongst others.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria (dedicatee); Portrait of: Pope Urban VII; Portrait of: Pope Pius V (St Pius); Portrait of: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; Portrait of: Ferdinand, Cardinal Infante of Spain and Archduke of Austria; Portrait of: Philip IV, King of Spain; Portrait of: François I, King of France; Portrait of: Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre; Portrait of: Muhammad IV; Portrait of: Wladyslaw IV Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania; Portrait of: Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden; Portrait of: Christina, Queen of Sweden; Portrait of: William I, Prince of Orange; Portrait of: Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange; Portrait of: George II Rakoczi; Portrait of: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba; Portrait of: Charles de Longueval, Comte de Bucquoy; Portrait of: Cardinal Jules Mazarin; Portrait of: Margarita de' Medici, Duchess of Parma; Portrait of: Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Portrait of: Octavio Piccolomini; Portrait of: Admiral Michiel de Ruyter; Portrait of: Adriaen Pauw, Lord of Heemstede; Portrait of: Philibert de Rye, count of Varax; Portrait of: St Pierre Fourier; Portrait of: Erycius Puteanus
Acquisition date: 1943
Acquisition notes: Given by Mr W Ouston Smith of Tunbridge Wells
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1943,0213.57.1-180