National Gallery of Art · Volume
Biblia Ectypa (Pictorial Bible)
Johann Christoph Weigel (artist and publisher), Elias Christoph Heiss (printmaker), after Johann Jakob von Sandrart (artist, frontispiece)
- Date
- 1695
- Medium
- bound volume with 2 full page mezzotint engravings and 834 etched and engraved illustrations
- Dimensions
- book: 42.5 × 30.5 × 7.8 cm (16 3/4 × 12 × 3 1/16 in.)
- Classification
- Volume · Print
- Accession number
- 2014.42.1
- Credit line
- Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband, Milton Rose
- Time span
- 1651 to 1700
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- German
- mezzotint
Provenance
Ingrid Rose (Washington, DC); gift to NGA, 2014.
Inscription
Inside upper cover in brown pen: Judith [C?]ounder, nee, (not deciphered) / 1749; in graphite: (not deciphered); in frontispiece across bottom: Christopher Weigel excud. cum grat. et privil. Sacra caefarea Majestatis I on. Iacob, de Sadrart del. Elias Christopher, Heifs sculp. in grahppite on title under date: 1000, 5000, 100; upper center inside lower cover in graphite: 837; bottom center: 832 (not deciphered) / 2 (not deciphered)
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