Edge of a binding by the Amsterdam bookbinder, Albert Magnus, 1679
Magnus, Albert (boekbinder/bookbinder)
year: 1679
type: boekband
binding
detail: nee
dimensions: 22,9 x 16,7 x 5,7 cm.
related terms: boekbanden sneden vergulde sneden
period: 17e eeuw
classification:
F: Bindkunst
contents: The edge of this binding is gilded, painted and chased with all kinds of imaginary images relating to love and marriage such as the god of love, Amor, who shoots arrows at hands fastened by a lock, turtle doves, a copulating cock and hen and the pelican which is feeding its young with its own blood. The binding was intended for Gillis Pelgrom and Anna Elisabeth van Uchelen of Amsterdam on the occasion of their marriage in 1679.
origineel:
source: Cats, I. - 's Werelts begin, midden, eynde, besloten in den trov-ringh, met den proef-steen van den selven. - Dordrecht: f. M. Havius pr. H. van Esch, 1637.
available in: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 1791 B 1
©description: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
©reproduction: Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek
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