Van Hulle, Anselm ; de Jode, Pieter ; Galle, Cornelis... Lot n° 571

VAN HULLE, Anselm (after) 28 portrait engravings. Antwerp 1649-1651 28 engravings, 30,5 x 19,5 cm, laid paper, all signed in the plate "Anselmus van Hulle pinxit" (some foxing in the margins). From the series "Celeberrimi ad Pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem Legati Monasterium et Osnabrugas" (76 pl.), depicting all major political players in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). After drawings by Anselm Van Hulle, and engraved by various Antwerp printmakers such as Cornelis I Galle, Paulus Pontius, Pieter de Jode and Matthaeus Borrekens. Very clear impressions of the 2nd, extended edition. Ref. Hollstein VII:219-308.