Artist: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577 -1640)

Item Title:
Book Illustrations and Title Pages.
Author(s):
Judson, J. Richard ;  Van de Velde, Carl
ISBN:
0905203097
Item Number:
Part XXI, v.1-v.2
Imprint:
London : Harvey Miller ; Philadelphia : Heydon & Son, 1978.
Language:
English
Size:
27 cm
Pages:
552
Illustrations:
294 b&w
Concordance:
No
Bibliography:
No
Index:
Yes
Exhibition List:
No
Chronology:
No
Content Note:
Individual entries include title, date, inscriptions, references, publication title, provenance, exhibitions, medium, dimensions, copy examined by the authors, and extensive comments.
Individual Entries Contain:
Provenance; Exhib. Hist; Bibliog.; Comments
Public Note:
These volumes are available in their entirety through the Corpus Rubenianum Website as downloadable and searchable pdf files (Click 'Full Text' link on this Page).

Volume 1 includes texts on Rubens' designs for books published by the Plantin Press in Antwerp, and his relationship with its owner, Balthasar Moretus. This is followed by the catalogue raisonné.

Volume 2 contains the Appendices, which include lists of books with frontispieces or illustrations by Rubens, excerpts of correspondence and other documents. There are various indices of collections, subjects, names and places, and other works by Rubens referenced in the text.
 
 
 
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