Category:Spiegel der alderschoonste cortisanen deses tijds

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https://www.liberantiquus.com/pages/books/4820/crispijn-de-passe-ii-1594-5-ca-1670/spiegel-der-alderschoonste-cortisanen-deses-tijds-verbeeldende-desselfs-verandering-van Passe, Crispijn de, II (1594/5- ca. 1670). Spiegel der alderschoonste Cortisanen deses tijds. Verbeeldende desselfs verandering van Klederen, Vercierselen, en andere Ornamenten, onder haar gebruikelijk. N.pl. n.pr. 1701.

A newly-engraved edition of Crispijn de Passe II’s “Mirror of the most beautiful Courtesans of this Age”. The book consists of a letterpress title-page, letterpress dedication leaf, and 28 etched oval portraits, each with opposite letterpress text in French, Dutch and German. The portraits are re-engraved copies of de Passe’s celebrated series, “Miroir des plus belles courtisanes de ce temps”(Amsterdam, 1630).

“The work became an immediate success. In six years no less than seven reprints appeared, five of which were printed from the original plates and two with copies of the prints. The original concept was soon expanded: reprints were supplemented with Dutch, German, and sometimes even English translations of the French quatrains… From 1631 onwards, the portraits were further embellished with two-line Dutch proverbs.

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