Accession number
PML 127386
Creator
Custos, Dominicus, -1612.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Dominicus Custos], [1593]
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1992.
Notes
Engraved title page, signed at bottom: "Dominicus Custodis Ant: totius Operis deliniator et sculptor. Aug: Vindelico[rum]."
An expanded version of Icones decem illustr. Baronum et Fuggarorum gente, engraved and published by Dominicus Custos in 1592.
Another edition was published in 1618 by Custos's sons-in-law, Lukas Kilian (157-1637) and Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), who expanded and updated the collection, replacing the portraits of some members of the family with new engravings depicting them in older age.
Subsequent editions issued with titles: Contrafete der Herrn Fugger und Frawen Fuggerin, and Pinacotheca Fuggerorum.
An expanded version of Icones decem illustr. Baronum et Fuggarorum gente, engraved and published by Dominicus Custos in 1592.
Another edition was published in 1618 by Custos's sons-in-law, Lukas Kilian (157-1637) and Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), who expanded and updated the collection, replacing the portraits of some members of the family with new engravings depicting them in older age.
Subsequent editions issued with titles: Contrafete der Herrn Fugger und Frawen Fuggerin, and Pinacotheca Fuggerorum.
Description
[72] plates : engravings (portraits) ; 42 cm (fol)
Provenance
Alfred Pfeiffer, armorial bookplate and monogram label "no 1934" (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, Oct. 1992.
Binding
Contemporary German black-tooled vellum over paper boards, with printed waste binding reinforcement.
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