Johann Theodor de Bry
From the series “Nova Alphati Effictio”
1594
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Johann Theodor de Bry
From the series “Nova Alphati Effictio”
1594
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 365 x 285 mm. (14 3/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 212 x 165 mm. (8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
2002.562.19
Set of 22 prints illustrating the alphabet, minus M and V (and J and U, which were never executed).
Nova Alphati Effictio historiis ad singulas literas correspondentibus, et toreumate Bryanaeo artificiose in aes incisis illustrata. Versibus insuper Latinis et Rithmis Germanicis non omnino inconditis.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2002; James A. Bergquist, Boston
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein
von Wurzbach, Alfred. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet (Vienna: Halm und Goldmann, 1906-1911): vol. I, #29.
Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ongoing 2001): vol. IV,# 171-195.
Jong, Mirjnke de and Irene de Groot. Ornamentprenten in Het Rijkprentenkabinet I, 15th & 16th centuries; Amsterdam: Rijkprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 1988, pp.51-2, # 60.1-25.
Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ongoing 2001): vol. IV,# 171-195.
Jong, Mirjnke de and Irene de Groot. Ornamentprenten in Het Rijkprentenkabinet I, 15th & 16th centuries; Amsterdam: Rijkprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, 1988, pp.51-2, # 60.1-25.
Inscribed: by later hand, lower left in brown ink: "21"; by later hand, upper right in graphite: "71."
