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Title

 Crispyn van de Passe, "Spiegel der alderschoonste cortisanen deser tyts", 1631


Creator

 Passe, Crispyn van de (illustrator), Passe, Crispyn van de (uitgever/publisher)


Year

 1631


Type

 illustratie, illustration


Related term

 illustraties, gravure, formaten


Period

 17e eeuw


Classification

 E: Boekillustratie


Content

 This small book was published by Crispyn van de Passe the Younger, descendant of a well-known family of engravers. It originally appeared anonymously and contains 38 portraits, with accompanying rhymes in Dutch, French and German, of women of dubious reputation such as prostitutes, courtesans and procuresses. The author of the rhymes is unknown, but may have been Van de Passe himself.


Original

 Passe, Crispyn van de. - Spiegel der alderschoonste cortisanen deser tyts. - S.l: Crispyn van de Passe, 1631, pl. 29-30


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 343 J 8


@description

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


@reproduction

 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek