Tabula.XVII
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Serwouters, Pieter, 1586-1657
[Elzevir, Bonaventure, 1583-1652]
Lippe-Brake, Otto, Graf zur, 1589-1657 (his motto and coat of arms)[Elzevir, Abraham, 1592-1652 (publisher)]
Graphic
[Bonaventura Elzevier]
Leiden]
[1628]
1 print : Engraving ; plate mark 488 x 700 mm. on sheet 539 x 419 mm.
Paper
Latin
Netherlands
Top of print, in centre, above coat of arms: "AUT MORS AUT VITA DECORA"; Top of print, in centre, under coat of arms: "OTTO COMES ET NOBILIS .DOMIN: LIPPIAE."; Bottom left page: "Circulus N°. 3. P: Serwouter. Antverp sculp:"; Bottom of double page, centre
Print 17 of: Thibault, Gérard, ca. 1574-1627, ACADEMIE de L'ESPÉE, Book I
L.4637 Direzione Generale di Antichità e Belle Arti Rome [on the outer recto and verso side of the double page with print]
Print spread over a double page. The readability is good, although the paper has darkened considerably; evidence of mould, and of woodworm in middle of double page.
Fair
FencingFencersRapiersDevices (Heraldry)
Biblioteca Corsiniana
Fondo Corsini
30.I.21,libr.I,tav.XVII
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G. K. Nagler, Künstler-Lexicon, vol. 16, München, 1846, p. 299 n. 13; Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450 - 1700, vol. 26, compiled by Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer, ed. by K. G. Boon, Amsterdam, 1982, p. 252, n. 69
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