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Dem hoch Edlen unnd gestrengen Herren Jonae von Heyssperg auff Merckenstein...Johann Wilhelm Baur Inventor et fecit
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
Dem hoch Edlen unnd gestrengen Herren Jonae von Heyssperg auff Merckenstein...Johann Wilhelm Baur Inventor et fecit
1641
Place of Publication: Vienna, Austria
Medium/Technique
Set of etched dedication/title and 150 etchings
Dimensions
Overall [binding]: 51.5 x 37.5 x 3 cm (20 1/4 x 14 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP2443
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Vienna: Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1641
Catalogue Raisonné
Meyer, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon III, p. 154, no. 12
Description(Vienna: Johann Wilhelm Baur, 1641) All plates in the series (P2443-2593) are separately mounted on leaves of an album, bound in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf.
Illustrations of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. First edition; there was a later version with etchings after Baur by Melchior Küsell. BOUND with rest of series (P2444-2593).
Illustrations of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses. First edition; there was a later version with etchings after Baur by Melchior Küsell. BOUND with rest of series (P2444-2593).
ProvenanceEarly provenance not researched; Henry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York, Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA, November 1897.