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Crispin van de Passe II (Dutch (worked in France), about 1597–1670)
1642
Place of Publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with engraved title and 20 engravings
Dimensions Overall: 36.2 x 23.8 x 2 cm (14 1/4 x 9 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Ellen Page Hall Fund
Accession Number34.849
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Amsterdam: Crispin de Passe, 1642

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 1223 (1651 ed.); Franken 1357, 2nd ed.; Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, XVI, p. 138, no. 174ii
Description(Amsterdam: Crispin de Passe, 1642) Folio; 21 leaves; contemporary vellum.

Illustrations of architectural orders, cornices, beds, tables, chairs, paneling, frames, cartouches, etc.

Second edition; the first was Utrecht, 1621. This edition has extra plates, up to "U." There was a further edition in 1651 (Berlin 1223). Four plates from this title are also found in the first MFA copy of de Passe's Drawing book--some with different numbering (*NC705.P37 [in DP storage]).
ProvenanceG. Mathias, Paris, from whom purchased by MFA, October 4, 1934.