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Arcus aliquot triumphal et monimenta

Author: Johannes Sambucus (1531–1584)
Workshop of: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
Publisher: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
1572
Place of Publication: Antwerp, Belgium

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with sixteen engravings
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 21.5 x 5.3 cm (12 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number50.6.3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Antwerp: Philips Galle, 1572

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 2940; Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, VII, p. 80, no. 401; New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, Philips Galle, Pt. IV, p. 251, no. R24
Description(Antwerp: Philips Galle, 1572) Folio; 36 leaves; original gilt-stamped armorial green vellum binding (green cloth box). BOUND with: 50.6.1-2 and .4-15 (Hoffmann album)

Illustrations of designs for triumphal arches, with emblematic motifs. First edition. The designs refer to the sieges of Lepanto in 1572 by Juan of Austria (Hollstein). Manfred Sellink, in the New Hollstein, rejects the attribution of the engraving to Galle himself, preferring to call it within his workshop.
ProvenanceFerdinand Hoffmann von Grünpichl-Strechau (b. 1540 -d. 1607), Prague; given by Ferdinand Hoffmann to his wife, Margaretha von Harrach; by descent through the Counts Harrach to the Hradec Library, Czech Republic. 1950, sold by William H. Schab, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)