Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II - The seventeenth century (3 Volumes) special price!

Three squarish 4to volumes, cloth. ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 534+593+503 pp. Hundreds of b/w illustrations in each volume. The third volume contains a glossary, bibliography and index of names. More than 14,000 individual prints and albums, primarily by Dutch, German, Italian and French artists, are cataloged. The works are organized in broad categories across the three volumes: Ornament; Decorative Arts; Architecture; Fetes, Fireworks and Theatre; Model and Drawing Books; Representations of Nature; and Writing and Calligraphy. Within each category the works are further organized by more specific subjects. These volumes are the fifth in the series "Studies in Prints and Printmaking".