Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi; Neo-coelastis iconibus expressa

1693

Johann Christoph Weigel

Artist, German, c. 1654 - 1726

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with an engraved titlepage, six pages of letterpress text, etched and engraved frontispiece, and 100 etched and engraved plates

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    book: 22.9 x 16.2 x 2.5 cm (9 x 6 3/8 x 1 in.)
    overall: 22.2 x 14.6 cm (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.78.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, Vol. 35, no. 277, State -278

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. l'abbé de Causans; [Antiquariat Bibermühle Heribert Tenschert, 2001]; Purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1907

  • Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker, eds. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart . 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950.

1950

  • Graesse, Jean George Théodore. Trésor de livres rares et présieux. Leipzig, 1950: VII, 429-430.

1968

  • Augsburger Barock. Exh. cat. Rathaus und Holbeinhaus, Augsburg, 1968: no. 591.

1982

  • Bauer, Michael. "Christoph Weigel (1654-1725): Kupferstecher und Kunsthändler in Augsburg und Nürnberg." Archiv für Geschchte des Buchwesens 23 (1982): 694-1186.

2004

  • Antiquariat Bibermühle Heribert Tenschert. Biblia Sacra. Ramsen, SW, 2004: no. 95.

Inscriptions

in pen and brown ink upper center of front flyleaf: donné par Mr. l'abbé de Causans

Markings

verso of front free endpaper, a 19th-century armorial book plate with a triton blowing a shell-horn and "en tout bien"

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