ACADEMIE de L'ESPÉE de GIRARD THIBAULT d'Anvers. ou se demonstrent PAR REIGLES MATHEMATIQUES SUR le fondement d'un CERCLE MYSTERIEUX LA THEORIE ET PRATIQUE des vrais et iusqu'a present incognus secrets DU MANIEMENT DES ARMES A PIED ET A CHEVAL

Gauw, Gerard, -1638

[Passe, Crispijn de, c.1597-c.1670]

[Passe, Crispijn de, c.1597-c.1670]

[Elzevir, Bonaventure, 1583-1652]

Thibault, Gérard, ca. 1574-1627 (author of the book)
[Elzevir, Abraham, 1592-1652 (publisher)]

Graphic

[Bonaventura Elzevier]

Leiden]

[1628]

1 title-page : Engraving ; plate mark 503 x 354 mm. on sheet 539 x 419 mm.

Paper

French; Latin

Netherlands

In centre of print: "ACADEMIE de L'ESPÉE [...] ET A CHEVAL."; In centre of print, below: "M. IƆC. XX VIII."; Centre of print, below to the right: "G. Gauw. sculp"; Bottom left corner of print: "Schelderic: A. Bolsvert sculp. Bruxellae."

Title-page of: Thibault, Gérard, ca. 1574-1627, ACADEMIE de L'ESPÉE

L.4637 Direzione Generale di Antichità e Belle Arti Rome [on the verso of the print]

The readability of the print is good but the ink has penetrated through the paper. Design for the title-page, attributed to Crispijn II van de Passe, in the Printroom of the Leiden University Library, inv. PK-T-AW-683, see http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1276044 [accessed on 23-10-2018].

Good

Michael (Archangel)
Minerva (Roman deity)
Heracles (Greek mythological character)
Hercules (Roman mythological character)

Fencing
Fencers
Gladiators

Biblioteca Corsiniana

Fondo Corsini

30.I.21,title-page

Link to mother card

30.I.21,title-page-BookII,tav.XIII

Link to album description

30.I.21

F. W. H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, vol. 3, Amsterdam, s.d., p. 90 n. 327

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