Design for a title page (?)

Inventory number: CVH 433
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design for a title page(?): a crown with a niche with, inside that, a seated royal figure(?) and six steps that lead to that niche; apart from that two cartouches: one depicting Jacob’s ladder, the other (at the bottom) a bullfight(?); above that, on the left, a patroness of the city, accompanied by a lion which is holding a broken-off column in its right foreleg.

Artist:

Jan-Peter van Baurscheit the Elder

Dating:

unknown

Material:

Black ink on paper

Dimensions:

314 x 196 mm

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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