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Book/Printed Material Portraicts des roys d'Angleterre, depuis Brutus, iusques au roy Charles du nom, à présent regnant.

About this Item

Title

  • Portraicts des roys d'Angleterre, depuis Brutus, iusques au roy Charles du nom, à présent regnant.

Names

  • Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641, engraver.
  • Levis, Howard Coppuck, former owner.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [Paris? 162-?]

Headings

  • -  Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Portraits--Early works to 1800
  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  A series of 138 portraits by Leonard Gaultier, engraved in line, with descriptive text in French; mounted on blank sheets within woodcut borders. The title is printed within an oval, woodcut, highly ornamental border. Cf. Levis, H. C. Notes on the early engraved royal British portraits (London, 1917).
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1387
  • -  LC copy imperfect: the portraits between no. 30 and no. 66, and the text between no. 30 and no. 63, wanting.
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Book-plate of Howard C. Levis.
  • -  With: Abrégé de l'histoire françoise, avec les effifies des roys, depuis Pharamond iusques au roy Louys XIII. à présent regnant. Paris, 1617. Bound together subsequent to publicaction.
  • -  LAC ecr 2019-09-09 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-02-09 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [16] p. : ports. ; 32 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • N7604 .P73

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 54000207

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Gaultier, Léonard, Engraver, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Portraicts des roys d'Angleterre, depuis Brutus, iusques au roy Charles du nom, à présent regnant. [Paris? 162-?] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/54000207/.

APA citation style:

Gaultier, L., Levis, H. C. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Portraicts des roys d'Angleterre, depuis Brutus, iusques au roy Charles du nom, à présent regnant. [Paris? 162-?] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/54000207/.

MLA citation style:

Gaultier, Léonard, Engraver, Howard Coppuck Levis, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Portraicts des roys d'Angleterre, depuis Brutus, iusques au roy Charles du nom, à présent regnant. [Paris? 162-?] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/54000207/>.