Icones principum virorum doctorum pictorum chalcographorum statuariorum nec non amatorum pictoriae artis numero centum ab Antonio van Dyck pictore ad viuum expressae eiusq[ue] sumptibus aeri incisae.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641)
Category
Books
Date
1646
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3042243
Summary
Bibliographic description
[119] leaves of plates : all ill. (ports.) ; fol. Running number: 7624. Pagination: [113] leaves of plates; consisting of 109 engraved plates as issued (2 wanting?) plus an additional 4 portrait plates after Van Dyck pasted onto blank leaves at end. Original plates hand-numbered 1-110, but no. 3 has been missed-out. Binding: nineteenth-century full diced calf; double gilt fillet border; board edges have single gilt fillet along them and gilt roll pattern on the corners; single gilt fillet on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Icones. Van Dyck' lettered on spine. All edges gilt. Coloured endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641), artist and engraver Jacobus Neeffs (b/1610), engraver (printmaker) Lucas Vorsterman the elder (Zaltbommel 1595 - Antwerp 1675), engraver (printmaker) Vorsterman, Lucas, engraver (printmaker) Paulus Pontius (Antwerp 1603 - Antwerp 1658), engraver (printmaker) Pieter De Jode II (Antwerp 1606 - England c.1674), engraver (printmaker) Schelte Bolswert (Bolsward c.1586 - Antwerp 1659), engraver (printmaker) Adriaen Lommelin (b.1636), engraver (printmaker) Nicolaes Lauwers (1600-1652), engraver (printmaker) Robert van Voerst (1597-1635/6), engraver (printmaker) Cornelis Galle (1576-1650), engraver (printmaker) Andries Jacobsz.Stock (c.1580-c.1648), engraver (printmaker) Hondius, Willem, engraver (printmaker) Willem Jacobsz. Delff (1580 - 1638), engraver (printmaker) Peeter Clouwet (1629-1670), engraver (printmaker)