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Frontispiece for Andries Pels’s 1677 ‘Q. Horatius Flaccus: Dichtkunst’
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Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher I, and others

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

1669

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

1669

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

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

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