Antique Print-COAT OF ARMS-BARONY OF BOUCHOUT-BOECHOUT-Butkens-1724

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Baronnie de Bouchout. – (Barony of Bouchout/Boechout, Belgium.) Includes a print of the family weapon with lions holding a banner. It includes related text, and consists of 1 sheet, 2 pages (p27-28).

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Description

‘Baronnie de Bouchout.’

Etching and letterpress on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 34 x 21 cm. (13,4 x 8,3 inch). Image size: 9,5 x 10 cm. (3,7 x 3,9 inch).

This original old antique print / plate originates from: ‘Trophees tant sacres que profanes du Duche de Brabant …’, by F. Christophre Butkens, published in The Hague by Chretien van Lom, 1724-1726. This is the second and most lavish edition of this work with many copperplate engravings as oposed to the first edition with mostly woodcuts. This is an important work on history and genealogy of the Duchy of Brabant, which covers part of Belgium and the Netherlands. Author: Christophorus Butkens (1591-1650), a Belgian Cisterian Monk born in Antwerp, known for his wealth of historic information but also his many errors in this.

Made by an anonymous engraver after ‘Christophorus Butkens’.

Condition: Very good, given age. some browning General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: COAT OF ARMS-BARONY OF BOUCHOUT-BOECHOUT

A163b-03

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Dimensions 21 × 34 × 1 cm

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