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Icones, id est verae Imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate illustrium
Author: Théodore de Bèze (1519–1605)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Swiss, 16th century (Swiss, 16th century)
School of: Tobias Stimmer (German, 1539–1584)
Publisher: Jean de Laon (1519–about 1599)
Illustrated by: Unidentified artist, Swiss, 16th century (Swiss, 16th century)
School of: Tobias Stimmer (German, 1539–1584)
Publisher: Jean de Laon (1519–about 1599)
1580
Place of Publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 82 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 25.2 x 17.2 x 3 cm (9 15/16 x 6 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vershbow
Accession Number69.1299
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet I, 843; Murray, French, 614; Praz 270; F. Gardy, Bibliographie de Bèze, 338.
Description(Geneva: Jean de Laon, 1580) Quarto; 160 leaves; 19th-century blind- and gilt-stamped brown calf, rebacked.
Illustrations: 38 portraits within decorative borders; 44 emblems, also within decorative borders.
Illustrations: 38 portraits within decorative borders; 44 emblems, also within decorative borders.
ProvenanceJ.P.R. Lyell; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vershbow, MA, by whom given to MFA, December 31, 1969.