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Title: [Antique print, printer's device, woodcut] A flying Fama over the city of Utrecht, published ca. 1700, 1 p.
Description: Printer's device of Willem van de Water, active in Utrecht between 1689 and 1713.It shows a Fama flying in the sky, over a city with towers [Utrecht], playing a trumpet. From the trumpet hangs a flag with a sun. Two cornucopias depart from the bottom center and frame the scene on the sides. An inscribed ribbon at bottom: 'PAX APTIUM ALTRIX'. Xylography on paper, mounted on a sheet of laid paper; total: 55 x 40 mm; in very good condition.

Keywords: Allegories|Book illustrations|Frontispiece|Iconography|Music|printing house|Topography & Travel|Utrecht|Woodcut