print
- Museum number
- 1979,U.513
- Description
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Helmeted coat of arms of Gerard Meerman, charged with a merman, supported by lions and crested with a merman. c.1760
Engraving
- Production date
- 1760 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 92 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gerard Meerman ordered two versions of this plate: a second version contains the added text "Bibliotheca Meermanniana" and was used as his book-plate. [Information from Jos van Heel, curator of the Museum Meermano-Westreenianum, The Hague].
Literature: Jos van Heel. 'Boekmerken van de naamgevers van het Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum', in Jaarboek van het Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen 21 (2013), pp.203-206.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1979,U.513