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Emblemes d'amour illustrez d'une explication en prose fort facille pour entendre le sens moral de chaque embleme

Style of: Otto van Veen (Flemish, 1556–1629)
Engraver: Unidentified artist, French, 17th century
French
about 1620?
Place of Publication: Paris?, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 47 engravings
Dimensions Overall: 25.8 x 18.6 x 2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 5/16 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick
Accession Number58.1367.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris?: about 1620?

Catalogue Raisonné Praz, p. 525; Landwehr, Romanic emblem books, 754
Description(Paris?: about 1620?) Quarto; 47 leaves; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped black morocco binding with initials HS and L (Orrock & Son).

Emblematic illustrations featuring Amour (Cupid)
ProvenanceSir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818 - d. 1878); Sir Schomburg-Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian; Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Wick; 1958, given by Mr. and Mrs. Wick to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 1958)