Le Cabinet des plus beaux Portraits ... faits par le fameux Antoine van Dyck, published c. 1720s

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series Title

(see separate records for series 1-125)

Medium

1 vol: ill: 125 etchings and engravings constituting van Dyck's "Iconography"; title p. for the c. 1720s ed. with etched and engraved illus.; 4-page text entitled "Abrege de la vie de Antoine van Dyck" with etched and engraved tail-piece; and "Catalogue des noms des portraits contenues dans le livre."

Dimensions

page size: 37.4 x 24.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.125.1

Artists / Makers

Sir Anthony van Dyck (artist) Flemish, 1599 - 1641

Various Artists (artist)

Sir Anthony van Dyck (artist after) Flemish, 1599 - 1641

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Inscription

on title page upper right in black ink: F. Molesworth / 1777; above crossed out in brown ink and inscribed below: Given by Frances Molesworth / (illegible inscription crossed out) / 1780; on verso of frontispiece in brown ink: Juliana Woodforde / Oct. 14, 1832

Provenance

Frances Molesworth (inscribed 1777, and again as a gift to [illegible] 1780); Juliana Woodforde (inscribed "Oct. 14, 1832"). Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Molesworth, Frances
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.
Woodforde, Juliani

Exhibition History

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001, as Self-Portrait from illustrated volume Le Cabinet des plus beaux Portraits ... faits par le fameux Antoine van Dyck, repro.

2004: The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

Bibliography

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 80-81 (1990.125.1.110 reproduced).

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Anthony Van Dyck, Simon Turner, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-; see records for individual prints for New Hollstein numbers.