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03/2231
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| Title | Prima (-Secunda) Pars præcipuarum effigierum ac ornamentorum, amplissimæ Curiæ Amstelrodamensis, maiori ex parte, in candido marmore effectorum, per Artum Quellinum, eiusdem civitatis statuarium. Het Eerste (Tweede) Deel Van de voornaemste Statuen ... La Premier Partie De plusieurs Figures et ornements, de la Maino de Ville d'Amsterdam ... |
| Imprint | Gedruckt t'Amsterdam: Met consentvan de Heeren Burgemeesters ende Regeerders van Amstelredam: ende met Speciael octroy van de Heeren Staeten. Geteeckent ende geetst door Hubertus Quellinus, ende gedruckt ten huyse van Frederick de Witt, Anno 1665. |
| Physical Description | 2 vols.; 440 mm. (Folio). |
| Physical Description Note | Vol. I: [6] p., engr. t.-pl., port., [48] pl. lettered A-T, engr. register. Some plates are out of sequence and several carry the same letter, as follows: A, B, E, C, F, D, G, H, I, K (3), D, K (2), L (2), M (3), N (5), O (4), P (3), Q (5), R (5), S (4), T (2). - Vol. II: Engr. t-pl., 2 fold. pl., 2 dble pl., [51] pl. lettered A-X, engr. register. Of the lettered plates several carry the same letter, as follows: A, B, C (4), D (3), E (4), F (3), G, H, I, K, L, M, N O (7), P (2), Q (3), R (3), S, T (4), V (2), W (3), X (3). |
| Content Format Note | Pt.I: [T.pl., engr. dedic., port.] - [Plates] - Register [engraved]. - Pt.II: [T.pl.] - [Plates] - Register van 't tweede Dell [engraved]; [privilege]. |
| Summary Note | The publication date of 1665 is carried by both title plates and by the two folding plates of Part II. The second folding plate of Part II carries the date 1664. |
| Responsibility Note | In Part I the portrait of Artus Quellinius is signed as drawn and engraved by Hubertus Quellinius. Plates A, C and F are signed 'Artus Quellinus e marmore exsculpsit. Hubertus Quellinus æri incidit'; most are signed simply 'A.Q.' and 'H.Q.', many simply 'A.Q.', and a few are unsigned. In Part II the two folding and the two double plates are signed by A. Quellinus and H. Quellinus; no other plate is signed.
The work is dedicated by Hubertus Quellinus to the Regeerende Burgermeesteren der Stadt Amsterdam. |
| Subject | Royal Palace (Amsterdam) - Interior decoration - Sculpture, Dutch - Palaces - Town halls - Municipal buildings - Netherlands - Amsterdam - History - 17th century - Baroque
Pictorial works - Netherlands - 17th century |
| Name as Subject | Quellinus, Artus, 1609 - 1668 |
| References | Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 274, p.222-3.
K. Fremantle, The baroque town hall of Amsterdam (1959); P. Thornton, 17th-century interior decoration in England, France and Holland (1978). |
| Binding Note | 18th-century sprinkled calf, rebacked in 20th century retaining earlier spine label lettered 'Amsterdam Stadt Huys Door Campen.' Bound with Afbeelding van 't Stadt Huys Van Amsterdam ... door Jacob van Campen (1661). |
| Provenance | Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802. |
| Variant Title | Prima Pars Præcipuarum effigierum |
| Contributors | Quellinus, Artus, 1609 - 1668, source artist
Quellinus, Hubertus, 1619 - 1688, engraver
Amsterdam. Council. dedicatee |
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