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| Keywords: Wit Ostriches and eagles.jpg Artwork Creator Frederick de Wit after and after ca 1650 engraving paper cm 7 20 Institution Visitationist Monastery accession number object history s 1650 purchase Marie Louise Gonzaga Warsaw s 1660 bequest Visitationist Monastery Warsaw credit line excudit Marc gerardus Inventor / S Frisius fecit signature top F de Widt excudit signature bottom right A print from one of two books of prints with animals owned by the Queen and used as models for some of her embroideries The author of prints in the first book entitled Avium Vivae Icones was Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder It contains a series of 12 model book prints depicting exotic and domestic birds originally created before 1567 Phoenix depicted on dalmatic I from the so-called Royal Set preserved in the Monastery was modelled on one of the prints from this book - the page with phoenix was torn from the Queen's book Also the pecking bird from dalmatic I was modelled on one of Gheeraerts' prints Magdalena Piwocka 1985 Aparat królewski - zespół szat liturgicznych z koÅ›cioÅ‚a SS Wizytek w Warszawie in Polska Akademia UmiejeÌ tnoÅ›ci Folia Historiae Artium Volume XXI Pic 44 p 118-119 See below PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1650s; Ostriches and eagles Frederick de Wit Marcus Gheeraerts I Simon Frisius Prints in the Visitationist Monastery in Warsaw Books from the Polish Vasa Collection Ostriches in art Eagles in art | ||||
