Biblia Ectypa (Pictorial Bible)

1695

Johann Christoph Weigel

Artist, German, c. 1654 - 1726

Elias Christoph Heiss

Printmaker, German, 1660 - 1731

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 2 full page mezzotint engravings and 834 etched and engraved illustrations

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband, Milton Rose

  • Dimensions

    book: 42.5 × 30.5 × 7.8 cm (16 3/4 × 12 × 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.42.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Thieme-Becker 1907-1950, Vol. 35, 277-278


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ingrid Rose (Washington, DC); gift to NGA, 2014.

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: 35, 277-278.

1950

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

Inscriptions

Inside upper cover in brown pen: Judith [C?]ounder, nee, (not deciphered) / 1749; in graphite: (not deciphered); in frontispiece across bottom: Christopher Weigel excud. cum grat. et privil. Sacra caefarea Majestatis I on. Iacob, de Sadrart del. Elias Christopher, Heifs sculp. in grahppite on title under date: 1000, 5000, 100; upper center inside lower cover in graphite: 837; bottom center: 832 (not deciphered) / 2 (not deciphered)


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