Effigies imperatorum domus Austriacae.

Antwerp, M. Vanden Enden, ca. 1640

€ 200 / 300

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Lot description

Album with 15 engravings, 17,5 x 12 cm, laid paper, signed in title (margins sl. foxed).

Mod. half vellum, marbl. covers.

Nice complete set: engr. title and 14 plates (numb. 1-12 and 2 unnumb.). Portraits of the Habsburg rulers inscribed in a medallion, from Rudolph I to Leopold I, after designs by the Flemish painter and engraver Jan Meyssens (1612-1670). Each portrait with a Latin caption and coat of arms (except pl.13, Ferdinand III).
Ref. Hollstein XIV:1-14. - Funck 361. - Not in MPM/Prentenkabinet.