Figures & Portraits · 17th century
€ 160
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Antique print, titled: 'Aleidis Pro Liberis, XXX. Brab. Princeps.' - This plate shows a full length portrait of Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 – 23 October 1273), she was a daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy. From: 'Annales ducum seu Principum Brabantiae totiusque' by Francicus van der Haer (also Haraeus). Published in Antwerp by Moretum & Moreti c. 1620.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'J. Collaert' after 'Otto van Veen'. Jan Collaert, member of the famous Flemish Collaert family of engravers, 16th and 17th centuries. Otto van Veen, also known by his Latinized name Otto Venius or Octavius Vaenius, (c.1556 – 6 May 1629) was a painter, draughtsman, and humanist active primarily in Antwerp and Brussels in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Technic: Copperplate engraving / etching. on A verge type of hand-laid paper. paper.
Condition: Good, given age. Some minor browning in the margins. Latin text on verso. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Date: 1620
Overall size: 7.9 x 12.6 inch
Image size: 0.001 x 5.7 x 8.3 inch
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