Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum
By: per Ioh. Episcopium
Publisher: Ex formis Nicolai Visscher
Published: 1672
Place of publication: Amsterdam?]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Ancient Sculpture; Renaissance Sculpture
Notes: Etched, historiated t.p. by Gérard de Lairesse.

Conventions of the t.p., artist's initials alone, nature of the tribute to Bisschop, indicate posthumous production.  Visscher family operated their business until 1726 when it was sold to Andries de Leth.

First published in part in 1671 in the Hague by Bisschop.

Second ed. but lacking the Latin and Dutch letterpress t.p. and dedication of the 1st ed. and an early run of the 2nd ed.

Usually issued with the artist's Signorum veterum icones.

Gelder, J.G. van.  Jan de Bisschop and his Icones & Paradigmata

Churchill, W.A.  Watermarks in paper

Library's copy with the artist's Signorum veterum icones (I.D. no. 88-B4538) published after 1672 and as associated with this work, before 1726.

Library's copy sharply trimmed, in some instances to the plate line, has sheets watermarked with the arms of Amsterdam, varying slightly (e.g., plates 28, 46) and countermarked AC (e.g., plate 29) and LBM (e.g., plate 37).