TORRE FARFAN, Fernando de la (1608-1677). Fiestas de la S. Iglesia
TORRE FARFAN, Fernando de la (1608-1677). Fiestas de la S. Iglesia metropolitana y patriarcal de Sevilla, al nuevo culto del senor Rey S. Fernando el Tercero de Castilla y de Leon. Seville: widow of Nicols Rodriguez, 1671 [1672]. 2° (290 x 208mm). Etched frontispiece by Mathias Arteaga after Fr. de Herrera, etched portrait of Ferdinand III by Arteaga after Murillo, portrait of Charles II of Spain by Herrera, 9 etched plates of emblematic devices by Francisco de Arteaga, Lucas Baldes and Luisa Morales, 9 etched folding views and plans of and in the church at Seville by the Arteagas and Juan de Baldes Leal, plates in duplicate with the exception of the frontispiece and 3 folding etchings. (All plates backed or mounted on linen, washed and pressed.) Late 19th-century morocco gilt, bound for William Stirling Maxwell with his gilt monogram on lower cover (rebacked). Provenance : Richard Ford (bookplate and tipped-in note) -- William Stirling Maxwell (bookplate and tipped-in notes) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. THE FINEST SPANISH FESTIVAL BOOK OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD, "the best illustrated Iberian book, by all odds, contained in the Harvard Collection" (Hofer), employing the best Seville artists to commemorate celebrations of the canonization of Ferdinand III (1199-1252) by Pope Clement X. Hofer 86; Palau 335597; Praz p.94; Vinet 815; See E. Garvey "Francisco Herrera the younger: A drawing for a Spanish festival book" in Harvard Library Bulletin 1978, p. 28ff.
TORRE FARFAN, Fernando de la (1608-1677). Fiestas de la S. Iglesia
TORRE FARFAN, Fernando de la (1608-1677). Fiestas de la S. Iglesia metropolitana y patriarcal de Sevilla, al nuevo culto del senor Rey S. Fernando el Tercero de Castilla y de Leon. Seville: widow of Nicols Rodriguez, 1671 [1672]. 2° (290 x 208mm). Etched frontispiece by Mathias Arteaga after Fr. de Herrera, etched portrait of Ferdinand III by Arteaga after Murillo, portrait of Charles II of Spain by Herrera, 9 etched plates of emblematic devices by Francisco de Arteaga, Lucas Baldes and Luisa Morales, 9 etched folding views and plans of and in the church at Seville by the Arteagas and Juan de Baldes Leal, plates in duplicate with the exception of the frontispiece and 3 folding etchings. (All plates backed or mounted on linen, washed and pressed.) Late 19th-century morocco gilt, bound for William Stirling Maxwell with his gilt monogram on lower cover (rebacked). Provenance : Richard Ford (bookplate and tipped-in note) -- William Stirling Maxwell (bookplate and tipped-in notes) -- Paul and Marianne Gourary. THE FINEST SPANISH FESTIVAL BOOK OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD, "the best illustrated Iberian book, by all odds, contained in the Harvard Collection" (Hofer), employing the best Seville artists to commemorate celebrations of the canonization of Ferdinand III (1199-1252) by Pope Clement X. Hofer 86; Palau 335597; Praz p.94; Vinet 815; See E. Garvey "Francisco Herrera the younger: A drawing for a Spanish festival book" in Harvard Library Bulletin 1978, p. 28ff.
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