print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Mm,3.31
Description: Figure 46 of third part: King Louis XIII in armour on horseback jousting with another horseman, who is on the other side of a fence, noblemen and women onlooking on stages beyond; surrounded by frame on separate plate showing classical architecture and coat of arms of France and Navarre at top centre; illustration to second edition of Antoine de Pluvinel's "L'Instruction du Roy" (Paris: 1625) Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Crispijn de Passe the younger
School/style: Flemish
Production date: 1623 (published 1625)
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving
Dimensions: Height: 208 millimetres (central image); Height: 323 millimetres (frame); Width: 300 millimetres; Width: 419 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This is one from a series of sixty book-illustrations; for comment see the title-page Mm,3.22*. See Gg.4M.36 for an earlier state of this plate in fragmentary condition.
Bibliographic references: Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe (1360.II); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (175.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: equestrian; jousting
Associated names: Illustration to: Antoine de Pluvinel; Representation of: Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Donated by: Dorothea, Lady Banks
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sarah Sophia Banks (L.216)
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Mm,3.31

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