Biblia Ectypa (Pictorial Bible)
1695
Artist, German, c. 1654 - 1726
Printmaker, German, 1660 - 1731

Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 2 full page mezzotint engravings and 834 etched and engraved illustrations
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 42.5 × 30.5 × 7.8 cm (16 3/4 × 12 × 3 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2014.42.1
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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)