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 - Centsprent: Het Trouw-Verbond. No 115.

Title: Centsprent: Het Trouw-Verbond. No 115.
Description: Marriage print in which an elegantly dressed couple hold hands above a pedestal with atop two flaming hearts bound together by a chain. The accompanying verse expounds on how a marriage of love and virtue is worth every treasure. The illustration (minus the border) and the text are borrowed from the weekly periodical of De Vrolyke Louw en Krelis 25 November Anna 1767, No 47, with a print of the wedding of Willem V and Wilhelmina van Pruisen. Amsterdam, De Erve de Weduwe J. Egmont (1761 - 1804), address mentioned on the print: ‘Gedrukt by de Erve de Weduwe Jacobus van Egmont op de Reguliers Breęstraat, te Amsterdam’; numbered ‘No. 115.’ in upper left corner.l Large woodcut illustrations (each ca. 270 x 310 mm) in a trapezium border, on hand-made paper; verses in 2 columns in letterpress under the image; total: ca 390 x 330 mm; folded once, paper fragile and reinforced in small areas on the verso.De Meyer p. 247, Boerma p. 739 (Egmont 115).

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Price: EUR 172.50 = appr. US$ 187.48 Seller: Antiquariaat Goltzius
- Book number: 63615

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