Iusta Funebria Serenissimæ Electricis Brandenburgicæ Ludovicæ Auriacæ

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/4372

Imprint

[S.l.:: s.n.,, ca. 1667?]

Physical Description

45 pl. (incl. t.pl.) (pl. 1-6, 18-20, 39-45 lack plate-numbers); 293×380 mm.

Responsibility Note

The title-plate is signed 'GB'; pl. [2] is signed as made by Bartsch (i.e. Johann Gottfried Bartsch?). The other plates are unsigned.

Summary Note

No publication-date or publisher's imprint is given on the title-plate or other plate.

The plates show the funeral procession of Electress Luise Henriette of Brandenburg (consort of Elector Frederick William), who died in 1667.

Provenance

The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'S: A: H', i.e. S.A. Hart, Librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81. Purchased for RA Library in 1873 (see RA Annual Report for 1873, Appendix No. 5, p. 37).

Binding Note

18th-century calf, upper cover lettered 'Iusta Funebria Electricis Brandenburgica'; gilt-decorated spine, unlettered.

Name as Subject

Subject

Funerals - Ceremonies - Processions - Costume - Rulers - Germany - History - 17th century
Funeral books - Germany - 17th century
Pictorial works - Germany - 17th century

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