The true effigies of the most eminent painters and other famous artists that have flourished in Europe : curiously engraven on copper-plates : together with an account of the time when they lived, the most remarkable passages of their lives, and most considerable works ...

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Resta, Sebastiano, Meyssens, Jean, 1612-approximately 1670, Galle, Théodore, 1571-1633?
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Published: [London] : [publisher not identified], 1694.
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 436:9.
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Description
Item Description:Engraved by T. Gallaeus and J. Mijtens. Cf. BM.
Text by Sebastiano Resta. Cf. NUC pre-1956.
Place of publication from BM.
Pt. 1 consists of 22 portraits preceded by an engraved title page which reads: Illustrium quos Belgium habuit pictorum effigies. Antverpiae : Apud Theodorum Gallaeum. Pt. 2 contains 99 portraits with an engraved title page which reads: Image de divers hommes d'esprit. Anvers : Mis en lumiere par Iean Meyssens, 1649.
Title page of pt. 1 preceded by an illustrated, engraved title page which reads: Het gulden cabinet van de edele vry schilder-const / Corn. de Bie. 1662.
Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
Microform.
Physical Description:2 parts