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Frontispiece for Andries Pels’s 1677 ‘Q. Horatius Flaccus: Dichtkunst’

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

Frontispiece for Andries Pels’s 1677 ‘Q. Horatius Flaccus: Dichtkunst’

1669-1679

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Frontispiece for Andries Pels’s 1677 ‘Q. Horatius Flaccus: Dichtkunst’

1669-1679

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 232 x 178 mm. (9 1/8 x 7 in.) Plate: 180 x 126 mm. (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.1324
Churchill, W. A. “Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII Centuries and Their Interconnection,” Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1935, p. CDXX, no. 562.
Timmers, J. J. M. “Gérard Lairesse,” Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1942, p. 127, no. 112 (rep.).
Hollstein, F. W. F. "Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700," Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, vol. 10 "L'Admiral-Lucas van Leyden," p. 18, no. 112.
Roy, Alain. "Gérard de Lairesse (1640-1711)," Paris: Arthena, 1992, pp. 472-3, no. G. 99 (rep.).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: On flag along top of image: "Q. HORATIUS FLACCUS / DICHTKUNST, / op onze tyden, en zéden gepast:" On cloth above coat of arms at center: "Aan de Heeren / GEELVINKEN / toegëeigend." On cartellino held up by satyrs in center foreground: "Door / A. PELS" Below image: "Per G. de Lairesse invent: et Sculp: et per Nicol: Visscher edit: cum Privilegio." Lower left corner, overlapping with image margin: "59"

Markings: WM: FIN as in Churchill 562

Artist

Gerard de Lairesse

1640–1710

Dutch, 1641 - 1711
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher I

1617–1678

Dutch, 1618 - 1679
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Publisher

Nicolaes Visscher II

1648–1701

Dutch, 1649 - 1702
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