Jan Luyken | Library of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, [Amsterdam, 1689], engraving, framed

Jan Luyken.

“Bibliotheek vanden Groot Hartoogh van Toscanen”, [Amsterdam, 1689]

Engraving of the Library of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, unframed: c. 180 x 295 mm, framed: 345 x 460 mm, “fol. 31” printed on upper-right corner, previously folded, not examined out of frame

This engraving is from Jacob Spon, Voyagie door Italien, Dalmatien, Grieckenland, en de Levant. Gedaan in de jaren 1675 en 1676 (Amsterdam: Jan ten Hoorn, 1689), a Dutch translation of the French Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce, et du Levant, first published in Lyon in 1678. Jacob Spon (1647-1685) was a French doctor and scholar of Greek with an interest in archaeology. Across these two years, Spon travelled with the botanist and collector Sir George Wheler (1650–1723) to Italy, then Greece, and the Constantinople and the Levant. Jan Luyken (1649–1712) was a Dutch illustrator and engraver who worked for a number of publishers both in and outside of Amsterdam. 

PROVENANCE:

Purchased in 2005 from Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, DE.

LITERATURE:

cf. STCN 850583446