Print Description
Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 19.5 x 29 cm (7.68 x 11.42 inch). Image size: 15.5 x 21.5 cm. (6.1 x 8.46 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS-ROMAN EMPEROR | MISC-BOX-01
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This plate originate from a 1704 Dutch ed. of the works of Tacitus, translated by P.C. Hooft.
Biography engraver: Andries Vaillant (1655-1693) was a Dutch engraver from Amsterdam. He was a pupil of his brother Wallerant Vaillant.
Biography artist: Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581 – 1647) – Knight in the Order of Saint Michael – was a Dutch historian, poet and playwright who lived during the Dutch Golden Age in literature.
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