Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Heinecken, Karl-Heinrich von, 1707-1791
Title:
Idée générale d'une collection complette d'estampes. Avec une dissertation sur l'origine de la gravure & sur les premiers livres d'images.
Published / Created:
Leipsic; Jean Paul Kraus, 1771.

Vienne, Jean Paul Kraus, 1771.
Physical Description:
8 p.., 520, [32] p. ill., 28 (i.e. 32) plates (part fold.) 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE880 H4

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

BAC : Two plates by Michel Keyl after Sandro Boticello.

BAC : Plates numbered 1a-b, 2-24, 25a-b, 26a-b, 27a-b, 28.

Modeled on the collection in the "Kupferstichkabinett", Dresden.
Subject Terms:
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Kupferstich-Kabinett. | Engraving -- Collectors and collecting. | Engraving -- History. | Illustrated books -- History -- 15th and 16th centuries.