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Allegory with Pallas Athene in honour of Prince Willem III, by Romeyn de Hooghe

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An image of Princelycke Almanach op't Jaer, MDCLXXV. Allegory with Pallas Athene in honour of Prince Willem III and his campaign 1673, with an almanac for the year 1675. Hooghe, Romeyn de (Dutch, 1645-1708). Etching, letterpress, colour printing (parts of the text). Black carbon ink on paper, height, sheet, 681 mm, width, sheet, 476 mm, 1675. Production Note: The almanach has been printed in black and red from letterpress on a slip of paper and pasted on the blank central lower part of the plate; below, on another slip with letterpress explanation of the allegory ('Uytlegging van't Sinnebeeldt') and the address of the publisher, Hendrick en Dirck Boom.

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Princelycke Almanach op't Jaer, MDCLXXV. Allegory with Pallas Athene in honour of Prince Willem III and his campaign 1673, with an almanac for the year 1675. Hooghe, Romeyn de (Dutch, 1645-1708). Etching, letterpress, colour printing (parts of the text). Black carbon ink on paper, height, sheet, 681 mm, width, sheet, 476 mm, 1675. Production Note: The almanach has been printed in black and red from letterpress on a slip of paper and pasted on the blank central lower part of the plate; below, on another slip with letterpress explanation of the allegory ('Uytlegging van't Sinnebeeldt') and the address of the publisher, Hendrick en Dirck Boom.

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  • Accession Number: P.73-1940
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 729 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 1.10MB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2017:07:20 13:40:48

Key words

17th Century allegory almanach almanack armour Athena breastplate colour printing cuirass Dutch Dutch Golden Age etching feathered feathers Fitz_PDP helmet helmeted letterpress male medallions mythological mythology Pallas Athene plumed portraits prince Prince Willem III print Romeyn de Hooghe royal royalty

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