print;
album
- Museum number
- 2AA+,a.63.1-150
- Title
- Series: Ovidii Metamorphosis oder Verwandelungs Bücher
- Description
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Complete set of copies from Baur's 'Metamorphoses'; consisting of an engraved titleplate and a printed titlepage, followed by 150 numbered plates copied in reverse from Baur's originals. Nuremberg (Paul Furst) 1688
Etching and engravings
- Production date
- 1688
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 210 millimetres (average platemark)
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Width: 320 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is a bound album containing a set of 150 plates copied from Baur's book of 1641, for which see 2AA*.a.31.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Metamorphoses
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- The old Montagu House pressmark 2AA*.a.63 is written on the titleplate, and the octagonal Sloane stamp is on the verso. On the flyleaf is Sloane's pressmark 'Pr.CCCCLIII' which replaces an earlier one 'Pr.XCV'
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2AA+,a.63.1-150
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1972,U.125(1-150) (re-registered in error)
