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[Netherlands] Iacob Cats Out LXXVII Iaren. Anno MDCLV. Alle de Wercken van I. Cats Ridder etc.
N Venne invent. M Mosyn sculp.
[t'Amsterdam, By Johannes Ratelband, de Weduwe Jan van Heekeren Hermanus Uytwerf, Isaak van der Putte, 's Gravenhage, Pieter van Thol en Pieter Husson. n.d. c.1726.]
Engraving. 315 x 197mm (12½ x 7¾"). Collector's mark on verso.
Jacob Cats (1577-1660) was a Dutch poet, humourist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books. This is the frontispiece to a posthumous publication of the works of Cats in "Alle de Wercken van den Heere Jacob Cats; Ridder, oudt raadtpensionaris van Hollandt. &c. Waar in het Twee-en-tachtig Jaarig Leeven des Dichters; beneffens desselfs Slaapeloose Nachten, met Printverbeeldingen sijn verrijkt".
Ex Collection: W.B. Dukes (architect, d.1942.) Lugt: 2757a.
[Ref: 20150] £140.00
[t'Amsterdam, By Johannes Ratelband, de Weduwe Jan van Heekeren Hermanus Uytwerf, Isaak van der Putte, 's Gravenhage, Pieter van Thol en Pieter Husson. n.d. c.1726.]
Engraving. 315 x 197mm (12½ x 7¾"). Collector's mark on verso.
Jacob Cats (1577-1660) was a Dutch poet, humourist, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books. This is the frontispiece to a posthumous publication of the works of Cats in "Alle de Wercken van den Heere Jacob Cats; Ridder, oudt raadtpensionaris van Hollandt. &c. Waar in het Twee-en-tachtig Jaarig Leeven des Dichters; beneffens desselfs Slaapeloose Nachten, met Printverbeeldingen sijn verrijkt".
Ex Collection: W.B. Dukes (architect, d.1942.) Lugt: 2757a.
[Ref: 20150] £140.00