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This is a drawing of a printed page consisting of text and an illustration. The page features a decorative title detailing an event relating to Henry II, King of France, in the year 1549. Below the title and main text, there is a small woodcut illustration depicting a figure carrying a staff or spear, navigating through a landscape with trees in the background, and water possibly flowing at their feet. The text beneath this illustration mentions Paris and a bookseller named Jehan Dallier. The overall composition of the page reflects the style of 16th-century printed documents, characterized by its typography and engravings.
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This is a drawing of a printed page consisting of text and an illustration. The page features a decorative title detailing an event relating to Henry II, King of France, in the year 1549. Below the title and main text, there is a small woodcut illustration depicting a figure carrying a staff or spear, navigating through a landscape with trees in the background, and water possibly flowing at their feet. The text beneath this illustration mentions Paris and a bookseller named Jehan Dallier. The overall composition of the page reflects the style of 16th-century printed documents, characterized by its typography and engravings.

National Gallery of Art · Volume

[Entrée d'Henri II] C'est l'ordre qui a este tenu a la nouvelle et ioyeuse entrée que tres hault, tresexcellent et trespuissant Prince le Roy treschrestien Henry deuzieme de ce nom à faicte en sa bonne ville et cité de Paris...

Jean Goujon

Date
1549
Medium
bound volume with 1 woodcut headpiece and 11 woodcut illustrations including 2 fold-outs on laid paper
Dimensions
book: 24.4 × 17.2 × 1.2 cm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume · Print
Accession number
2016.91.1
Credit line
William B. O'Neal Fund
Time span
1501 to 1550
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • woodcut
  • Henri II, King of France
  • Procession
  • Catherine de Medici
Provenance

(Librairie Paul Jammes, Paris, Catalog no. 296); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Inscription

inside upper cover in graphite: cc/[?]106/[?] / marque de P. Roffet, / Renouard 1010

Watermarks

on paste-down and free endpaper: crown over a bell with monogram HR in the middle; the letter P is evident in several sheets

NGA object ID 206699. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.