Ornamental Title Prints

Decorative prints featuring allegorical figures and elaborate frames including titles and coats of arms, merging art with text in historical contexts.

Zenteprent with exile by Hugo de Groot, Ornament print with a bust portrait by Thomas Erpenius and below his coat of arms. In the middle a six-line poem in Dutch about the exile of Caecilius Metellus Numidicus from Rome with above it a depiction of the exile of Hugo de Groot, flanked by Athens and Mercury, (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena), (story of ) Mercury (Hermes), Hugo de Groot, Thomas Erpenius, Cornelis de Jonker (mentioned on object), Gorinchem, 1791, paper, h 359 mm × w 199 mm
Zenteprent with exile by Hugo de Groot, Ornament print with a bust portrait by Thomas Erpenius and below his coat of arms. In the middle a six-line poem in Dutch about the exile of Caecilius Metellus Numidicus from Rome with above it a depiction of the exile of Hugo de Groot, flanked by Athens and Mercury, (story of) Minerva (Pallas, Athena), (story of ) Mercury (Hermes), Hugo de Groot, Thomas Erpenius, Cornelis de Jonker (mentioned on object), Gorinchem, 1791, paper, h 359 mm × w 199 mm