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De plurimis claris selectisque Mulieribus

published April 1497, borders dated 1493

Italian 15th Century

Artist

Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo

Author, Italian, 1434 - 1520

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Artwork overview

Medium

bound volume with 172 woodcut vignette portraits, including 116 repeats from 52 blocks, plus two large frontispieces
Credit Line

The New Century Fund, The Eugene L. and Louise Garbáty Fund, the Clark Charitable Foundation and the Edward MacCrone Fund
Dimensions

book: 32.2 x 21.5 x 4.5 cm (12 11/16 x 8 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Accession

2010.117.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sims Reed Ltd., London); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited

Bibliography

1964

Goff, Frederick R. _Incunabula in American Libraries, a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections._New York, 1964: no. J-204.

Inscriptions

in brown ink throughout: (not deciphered)

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