Title page: Decapla in Psalmos

Author Related author John Vicars British
1639
Not on view
Title page with the text surrounded by 10 small portraits of men of different nationalities: a Syrian, a Hebrew, an Arab, a Chaldaean, an Egyptian, a Greek, an Ancient Roman, a Gaul, a Spaniard and a Modern Roman.

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  • Title: Title page: Decapla in Psalmos
  • Series/Portfolio: Title pages (?)
  • Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Author: Related author John Vicars (British, 1579–1652)
  • Date: 1639
  • Medium: Etching; first state of two
  • Dimensions: Plate: 10 1/2 × 7 5/16 in. (26.7 × 18.5 cm)
    Sheet: 11 15/16 × 8 3/16 in. (30.3 × 20.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1926
  • Object Number: 26.36.212
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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