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16th century designs for tombs and funeral monuments

VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Johannes (Hans).
Pictores, statuarii, architecti, latomi, et quicunque principum magnificorumque virorum memoriae aeternae inservitis, adeste: et hunc libellum varias Coenotaphiorum, tumulorum, et mortuorum formas typis elegantissimis in aere exaratus comprehendentem inspicite, emite, utimini: et ingeniose manui Ioannis Vredemanni, qui has excogitavit, bene favete, e valete.


With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.

With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.

With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.

With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.

With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.



(Antwerp, Philipp Galle, 1563). 4to oblong. 19th century pigskin, gilt fillet along the edges, title on spine, lettered in gold, g.e. With engraved title with border decorated with trophies of death, on a hatched background, with four lines of Latin poetry (different from the Cock edition): "Effigies, tumulos, monumenta et symbola cernes, etc.", and 22 (out of 26) engraved plates (ca. 170x215 mm) of tombs and funeral monuments. Two plates from other series added.

Second issue with altered address of this important series of tombs and funeral monuments engraved by the Van Doetecom brothers after the designs of the famous Dutch painter, architect, designer and engineer Joannes (Hans) Vredeman de Vries (1527-1606?). Born in Leeuwarden (Vredeman Frisius, De Vries), he lived in Antwerp probably during the years 1555-1560 where he collaborated with the print publishers, mainly with Hieronymus Cock. He left Antwerp for religious reasons for Aix-la-Chapelle and Liège, but returned occasionally to the city for several commissions or the appointment as surveyor of the Antwerp fortifications. Later he has worked in Hamburg, Bremen, Dantzig and Prague at the court of Rudolph II. At the beginning of the 17th century he returned to Holland and settled in The Hague.

In 1563 this print series with designs for tombs and funeral monuments was published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp, numbered 1-27 including the title. Probably in the same year the series was issued with a new title by Philips Galle. Before 1610 the series was re-issued by Karel de Mallerij and later by Johannes Galle (see Hollstein XLVII, p. 129). In our copy the plates appear more or less in disorder: Title(1), 2-12, 15, 14, (45: plate from another series, see below), 16-17, (18: plate from another series, see below), 19, 26 (altered in 20), 27 (altered in 21) 22-25.

The two addition plates are both also by Hans Vredeman de Vries and are taken from other series:
- From a series of small architectural perspective views (originally published by Hieronymus Cock in 1562): view into a palace courtyard with ducks in a pond (152x210mm; Hollstein XLVII, 97), numbered '45': from the edition by Theodoor Galle, ca. 1601.
- From a series of oval architectural perspective views for intarsic work, ca. 1560-1562: view into the nave and choir of a church, vaults, columns of the Ionic order (212x161mm; Hollstein XLVII, 69), with the added number '18', as published in the edition Amsterdam/Antwerp, Theodoor Galle, (after 1601).

The plates are in good condition.- (6 plates with marginal browning; some minor restaurations).
Hollstein XLVII, Vredeman de Vries, 164, 138-163; and 69 and 97 for the additional plates (all with plates); Hans Vredeman de Vries und die Renaissance im Norden 96 (the Cock edition); cf. Berlin Kat. 3641; Mielke 1967, 27-29; Hans Vredeman de Vries 1526 - ca. 1606. Boeken met ornament- en perspectiefprenten IX.

Related Subjects: 16th Century  Architecture  Ornaments  Print Series 

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