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Archetypa studiaque patris GeorgiI HoefnageliI / Iacobus F: genio duc ab ipso scalpta omnibus philomusis amicé D: ac perbenigné communicat.

Accession number
PML 198272
Creator
Hoefnagel, Joris, 1542-1601.
Published
Francofurti ad Mœnum : [Jacob Hoefnagel], Ann. sal. XCII. [i.e. 1592] AEtat. XVII.
Notes
Each part has its own engraved title page and 12 additional leaves. Title pages of pts. 2 and 3 record: "excudebat Hoef." and "excud. Hoef."
Variations in the rendering of the plates may indicate different engravers at work. Cf. Vignau-Wilberg, p. 85.
Note.
The Morgan copy contains parts I and II only.
Description
4 parts in 1 : all illustrations ; 27 x 39 cm
Provenance
Stamp of the Kupferstichkabinett des Stiftes Lambach. From the library of Eugene V. Thaw.
Binding
Mounted in an album bound in gilt-tooled brown morocco.
Classification
Department