Juno, from "Deorum Dearumque Capita: ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita"
From series of fifty-five plates with medallion portraits of gods, goddesses, and personifications, after coins from the collection of Abraham Ortelius. Each plate includes the medallion at center, set in a strapwork border with grotesques, with the title in a cartouche above and the provenance of the coin in a cartouche below. According to a handwritten note on the title plate, this book is a presentation copy, given by Ortelius to Gerard Mercator. While it belongs to the first edition, published by Philips Galle in Antwerp in 1573 (in which the plates appear in alphabetical order), it lacks the four pages of text at the beginning and the three pages of text at the end. The plates were designed by Hans Vredeman de Vries (30 plates) and Gerard van Groeningen (25 plates) and were etched by the Van Doetecum brothers, with van Groeningen responsible for the frames in some plates and an unidentified engraver responsible for executing nine of de Vries's designs.
Artwork Details
- Title: Juno, from "Deorum Dearumque Capita: ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita"
- Series/Portfolio: Deorum dearumque capita: ex vetustis numismatibus in gratiam antiquitatis studiosorum effigiata et edita
- Artist: After Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, Leeuwarden 1527–1606 (?) Antwerp (?))
- Publisher: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp)
- Published in: Antwerp
- Date: 1573
- Medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)
- Dimensions: Plate: 4 7/8 × 3 7/16 in. (12.4 × 8.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (18.2 × 13.3 cm) - Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958
- Object Number: 58.512.4(34)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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