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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.
Abraham Repudiating Hagar and Ishmael
Master of the Tobias Legend
about 1475–1500
Trumpet
Leopold Tobias Uhlmann
about 1870
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune
1790
Giovanni Francesco Cresci
1570
Het Schilder-Boeck
Karel van Mander
1604
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1530
Detail: folio 2v - "Virtue"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
about 1520