Les vrais portraits des rois de France. Tirez de ce qui nous reste de leurs monumens, sceaux, medailles, ou autres effigies, conseruées dans les plus rares & plus curieux cabinets du royaume. Au tres-chrestien roy de France et de Nauarre Louis XIII. Par Iacques de Bie calcographe.
Jacques De Bie (1581-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1634
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3031772
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14], 4, 6, [4] p., LXII, [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; fol. Running number: 7603. Worm holes throughout. Some water-staining. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 64. Icones" [i.e. catalogue code and count of plates, written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full plain parchment over pasteboards; front cover damaged with numberous holes; remains of one pair of green silk ties (lower pair missing); spine cracked, partially missing; manuscript title at head of spine (faded).
Makers and roles
Jacques De Bie (1581-1650) Nicholas Mignard (Troyes 1606 - Paris 1668) , artist Pieter Louis van Schuppen (Antwerp 1627 - Paris 1702), engraver (printmaker)