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Impressio librorum
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Impressio librorum
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Nova Reperta
After: Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, 1523–1605)
Probably engraved by: Theodor Galle (Netherlandish, 1571–1633)
Published by: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
Probably engraved by: Theodor Galle (Netherlandish, 1571–1633)
Published by: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, 1537–1612)
about 1600
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 20.3 × 26.5 cm (8 × 10 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 28 × 36.5 cm (11 × 14 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 28 × 36.5 cm (11 × 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Barbara Wheaton
Accession Number2019.770
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein 326 (Stradanus) i / iii
Signed
l.r. (in plate) Ioan. Stradanus invent. Ph[i]l[ip]s Galle excud
InscriptionsIMPRESSIO LIBRORVM. / Potest vt vna vox capi aure plurima: Linunt ita vna scripta mille paginas.
ProvenanceOctober 12, 2018, anonymous sale, Leclere at Hotel Drouot, Paris, lot 98, to Susan Schulman Fine Art, New York and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings, Dallas; 2019, sold by Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)