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Deorum dearumque capita, ex antiquis numismatibus

Author: Abraham Ortelius (Netherlandish, 1527–1598)
Illustrated by: Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, 1527–1606?)
Illustrated by: Gerard Groenning (Netherlandish, 16th century)
Illustrated by: Marcus Gheeraerts I (Netherlandish, 1521–1636)
Etched by: Jan van Doetecum (Netherlandish, active 1554–about 1600)
Etched by: Lucas van Doetecum (Netherlandish, active 1554–about 1584)
Publisher: Jan Moretus (Netherlandish, 1543–1610)
1612
Place of Publication: Antwerp, Belgium

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with engraved title page and 59 etched and engraved illustrations
Dimensions Overall: 18.8 x 14 x 1.5 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow
Accession Number1990.635
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Antwerp: widow and sons of Jan Moretus, 1612

Catalogue Raisonné Brunet IV, 242; Berlin 229 (1573 ed.); Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Ornamentprenten, I, cat. 178; Funck, p. 373
Description(Antwerp: widow and sons of Jan Moretus, 1612) Quarto; 68 leaves; contemporary limp vellum (beige phase box).

Illustrations of ancient medallic portraits within decorative borders. Later edition of work first published by Plantin in 1572. The attribution of design and engraving/etching of the plates is unclear; the current information has been taken from the Amsterdam ornament print catalogue.

The wrong illustrations were printed originally on fol. I2 and I4; single impressions of the correct ones have been pasted on the leaves. Folio N1 (illus. of Isis) is lacking in this copy.
ProvenanceColl.: J. Maudin (inscription dated 1620); unidentified inscription dated 1693; G. Delmay; Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, by whom given to MFA, December 1990.