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Allegories of the Twelve Months [title plate]

ca. 1599
16th century

Crispijn de Passe, the elder (aka Crispijn I de Passe), Dutch, (ca. 1565–1637)
After Maarten de Vos, Flemish, (1532–1603)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Engraving
Series: from Allegories of the Twelve Months (Schemata XII Mensum)
Edition: From the set of 12 engravings plus engraved title plate
Bibliography: The series is Hollstein 576–588 (vol. 15, p. 201); Veldman (2001), pp. 46, 48; per Veldman 2001, p. 48, the series dates to 1599 or earlier, based on a documented purchase of this series of prints on December 29, 1599, listed in the diary of Aernout van Buchell; slightly enlarged reproductions were published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on a wall calendar for 1961.
Credit Line: Purchase funds, 1966
Accession Number: 1966.6.1.13

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allegory, months, round (shape), seasons, series (groups)*, sets (groups)*, title pages*
  • allegory
  • months
  • round (shape)
  • seasons
  • series (groups) - Use for related publications issued successively, especially those bearing a collective as well as an individual title; and, in the visual arts, for groups of works by a single artist having a specific and purposeful relation among the works. [March 1993 descriptor changed, was 'series'; alternate term added; descriptor moved. January 1991 scope note added.]
  • sets (groups) - Use with reference to a group of things designed to be used or viewed together. [March 1993 descriptor moved. April 1991 descriptor changed, was "sets"; alternate term changed, was 'set'.]
  • title pages - The pages of books that display the book's title and usually such information as the author's name, the publisher, and sometimes the date of publication. Where more than one page giving particulars of the title are present, that giving the fullest information is the title page. BATCOB

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