Author: Unknown maker
Title: [Antique title page, 1749] HORAE DIURNAE BREVIARII ROMANI, published 1749, 2 pp.
Description: Frontispiece and title page to a breviary published in Antwerp by Plantin Moretus.In the frontispiece, the personification of Ecclesia is sitting on the clouds on the right holding a ferula. On the other hand on the right is a descending landscape with ruins, leading to the basilica of St. Peter in Rome. Flying in the sky is a small angel with a trumpet from which hung the Papal arms.Inscribed at the bottom: 'ANTVERPIAE / EX ARCHITYPOGRAPHIA PLANTINIANA'; in the title page a small vignette with three putti holding the papal insignia. Engraving and letterpress on paper; total: 208 x 125 mm; frontispiece is soiled, the lettered page is in better condition.

Keywords: Allegories|Book illustrations|Frontispiece|Historical prints|Religion|Rome|Theology