Unknown Artist, Agostino Mitelli I, and others
Frontispiece for “Icones Principum Virorum…”
1644
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- Artist: Unknown Artist
- Artist: Agostino Mitelli I
- Publisher: Gillis Hendricx
Frontispiece for “Icones Principum Virorum…”
1644
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 373 × 300 mm. (14 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Plate: 264 × 169 mm. (10 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15714
An alternative frontispiece to an edition of the Iconography. This impression is the second state with the cherubim re-engraved.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1946; Garrett Collection; T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore
Inscribed: Recto: in image, center, in plate "ICONES / PRINCIPVM / VIRORVM DOCTORVM / PICTORVM CHALCOGRAPHORVM / STATVARIORVM NEC NON / AMATORVM PICTORIÆ ARTIS / AB / ANTONIO VAN DYCK / AD VIVVM EXPRESSAE"; below image, lower center, in plate "ANTVERPIÆ"; below image, lower right, in plate "Gillis Hendricx excudit"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "9962"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
Artist
Unknown Artist
