Dedication for a series of Old Testament scenes to Cosimo II de' Medici

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Title: Dedication for a series of Old Testament scenes to Cosimo II de' Medici
Engraver: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630
Printer/Publisher: Aelst, Nicolaus van, c.1527-1612
Other personalities: [Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1590-1621] (dedicatee)
Medium: print
Edition/Print Statement: Edition Statement 1ed. ; Print Statement1
Name of publisher: Nicolaus Van Aelst Formis
Place of publication: Rome]
Date of publication: 1613
Physical description: 1 print : etching on sheet 208 x 287 mm. (trimmed inside platemark)
Materials: paper
Language: Latin
Country: [Italy]
Inscriptions: At top: "SERENISSIMO PRINCIPI COSMO II MAGNO HETRVRIAE DVCI Antonius Tempesta felicitatem."; below the dedication continues in nine lines of Latin text; at centre left: "Nicolaus Van Aelst Formis"; at centre right: "Romae Superioru pmissu 1613.".
Annotations: Frontispiece of: Tempesta, Antonio, Scenes from the Old Testament, 20.A.II.115/45-69
Collectors' marks: Girolamo Casanate, Lugt 4559
Conservation: good
Location: Biblioteca Casanatense
: Fondo Stampe e Disegni
: 20.A.II.115/45
Series: Link to mother card
Series' component: 20.A.II.115/45-69
Album: Link to album description
Album's component: 20.A.II.115
Bibliography: The Illustrated Bartsch, New York 1983, vol. 35 commentary 1, p. 138, n. 235.
Link: Collectors' marks url

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