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frontispiece
Object Type
print
frontispiece
Museum number
1983,U.127
Description
Frontispiece with title written on a pedestal at centre, crowned coat of arms of Flanders surrounded by flags and arms on the pedestal, pieces of armour and four putti in foreground, one of them holding a plan of defensive structures; frontispiece to the second volume (covering the region of Namur) of Sébastien de Pontault Beaulieu's "Les Plans et Profils des Principales Villes et Lieux considerable d'Alost ou Flandre Imperiale" (Paris: 1668) Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Romeyn de Hooghe
Published by:
Sébastian Pontault, Seigneur de Beaulieu
School/style
Dutch
Production date
1668
(c.)
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
109 millimetres
(trimmed)
Width:
154 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(343-344)
((incomplete))
Landwehr 1970 / Romeyn de Hooghe as book illustrator
(2)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
heraldry
Associated names
Illustration to:
Sébastian Pontault, Seigneur de Beaulieu
Associated places
Associated with:
Namur (province)
Associated with:
Flanders
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Les Plans et Profils des Principales Villes et Lieux considerable d'Alost ou Flandre Imperiale
(Paris, 1668)
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Acquisition date
1897
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1983,U.127