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 ...
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- 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 ...
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- [London :: s.n.],
- 1694.
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- Artists -- Portraits.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57086.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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[illustration] portrait of Wenceslaus Hollar
117 WENCESLAUS HOLLAR
Gentilhomme ne a Prage l'an 1607. a esté de nature fort inelin pr l'art de meniature principa, lement pour ••••clairai•• maic beaucoup relardé par son pere, lan 1627, il est pari•• de Prage aijan•• dameure an divars lieux en Allamaigne, il c 〈◊〉〈◊〉 addonne yourpeu de temys a asclaircir et aplicquer leau forte, estant party de Coleigne avec l•• Comte d'Arondel ver•• Viann•• et dillec par Prage vers l'Angleterre, ou aijant ast•• serviteur domesticque du Duc de Iorck, il sect reti•• de la a cause de la guerre a Anvers ou il reside encores.
I••. Me••ssens pinxit et excudit.