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Icones heroum bellica virtute maxime illustrium

(German, 1539–1584)
(Italian, 1483–1552)
(German, active in Strasbourg, 1570–1594)
(Swiss, 16th century)
1589
Place of PublicationBasel, Switzerland
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 151 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 22.5 x 16.1 x 1.8 cm (8 7/8 x 6 5/16 x 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Vershbow
Accession number1976.835
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
Basel: Conrad Valdkirch [for Pietra Perna], 1589
ProvenanceV. A. G. C. Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (born in 1845); Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vershbow, MA, by whom given to MFA, December 1976.
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune
1790
Abraham Repudiating Hagar and Ishmael
Master of the Tobias Legend
about 1475–1500
Trumpet
Leopold Tobias Uhlmann
about 1870
Giovanni Francesco Cresci
1570
Het Schilder-Boeck
Karel van Mander
1604
Detail: folio 5v - "Portrait of Sorio"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
about 1520
Hermann Hugo
1628