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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
Mm,3.33
Description
Figure 10 of first part: The French king Louis XIII (aged sixteen) standing at left, with Messieurs de Pluvinel and le Grand, a horse tethered between two posts at centre, Monsieur le Potrincourt holding a whip at right; surrounded by frame on separate plate showing classical architecture and coat of arms of France and Navarre at top centre; illustration to first edition of Antoine de Pluvinel's "Maneige Royal" (Paris: 1623) Engraving
Producer name
Print made by:
Crispijn de Passe the younger
School/style
Flemish
Production date
1623
Production place
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
Dimensions
Height:
209 millimetres
(central image)
Height:
321 millimetres
(frame)
Width:
301 millimetres
Width:
410 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This is one from a series of sixty book-illustrations; for comment see the title-page of the first edition Mm,3.22*. For a later state of this plate (used in second edition published in 1625; with different frame and more extensive captions) see also Mm,3.39.
Bibliographic references
Franken 1881 / L'oeuvre gravé des van de Passe
(1360.I)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(175.I)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
equestrian
Associated names
Illustration to:
Antoine de Pluvinel
Representation of:
Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre
Representation of:
Antoine de Pluvinel
Representation of:
Charles de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons
(?)
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Louvre
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Maneige Royal
(Paris, 162.)
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,3.33