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Title page of the Acts of the Apostles

Maker

(engraver)
1500-1699

(publisher)

After
(designer)
1523-1605

After
(engraver)
1560-1618

After
(artist)
1498-1574

Title

Title page of the Acts of the Apostles

Date of Production

1674

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 26.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2957.89

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner within image, black ink: "W"; centre within image, black ink: "ACTA APOSTOLORUM // ELEGANTISSIMIS ICONIBUS SUMMO // ARTIFICIO DELINEATA A DUOBUS // PRAESTANTISSIMS PICTORIBUS // BELGIS, // A MARTINO HEEMSKERCKIO NEMPE, QUI EA INCHOAVERAT, ET IOHANNE STRADANO QUI EA ABSOLVIT. // EDENTE NICOLAO IOHANNIS VISSCHER."; lower centre edge, black ink: "Ut Christus summi subiit palatia coeli // Pectoribus sua dona piis infudit, ut ipsum, // Per varios casus per mille pericula vitae // Omnibus in tersis vario sermone sonarent.". Mount, Recto: lower centre edge, black print: "Theatrum Biblicum, 1674. // M. van HEEMSKERK".

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