Antique Print-QUEEN CATHARINE-GREAT BRITAIN-LISBON-PROCESSION-Merian-1652

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‘”PR?CHTIGER DURCHZUG DER K?NIGIN CATHARINA VON GRO? BRITANIEN, SO GESCHEHEN IN LISABONA, DEN 20 APRIL A. 1662″ UND “ABBILDUNG WIE DIE K?NIGIN CATHARINA VON GRO? BRITANIEN ZU SCHIFF VON LISABONA NACHHER ENGELAND VERREIST. ANNO 1662”.’

– These prints show the procession of Queen Catharine of Great Britain when arriving in Lisbon, Portugal on april 20 1662. And we see the Queen leaving Lisbon by ships heading to England.

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Description

These prints show the procession of Queen Catharine of Great Britain when arriving in Lisbon, Portugal on april 20 1662. And we see the Queen leaving Lisbon by ships heading to England.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 42 x 35 cm (16.54 x 13.78 inch). Image size: 38.5 x 31 cm. (15.16 x 12.2 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Fold as published. Creases. Fold in upper right corner. Brown spot in plate. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

POLITICS-QUEEN CATHARINE-GREAT BRITAIN-LISBON-PROCESSION | RBOS-A9-40

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in Merian “Theatrum Europaeum”, Frankfurt a. M. um 1652.

Reference: Fauser 7868 und 7869.

Biography engraver: Matthaus Merian (1593 – 1650) born in Basel learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg Nancy and Paris before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry who married his daughter Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel only to return three years later to Frankfurt where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry’s death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian who later published.

Additional information

Dimensions 35 × 42 × 1 cm

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