DOI article:
Chrościcki, Juliusz A.: Między Wilnem, Rzymem i Antwerpią: o dwóch projektach P. P. Rubensa do sześciu wydań Lyricorum Libri IV Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego w Officina Plantiniana
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27413#0123
MIĘDZY WILNEM, RZYMEM I ANTWERPIĄ
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libr i IV were published in 5000 copies, which is proven by the remark about the payment to
the engraver, Camelis Galle I, who received as much as 37 fl. 10 st from the publisher. The
plate is 100 mm long and 51 mm wide. The inscription on the copperplate, probably like in
the case of two other front pages of the same year, was madę by Karel de Mallery. After
Rubens’ death four éditions were published in Officina Plantiniana with an engraved front page
whose size was 100 by 51 mm. The éditions took place in the years: 1646, 1647, 1659, 1669.
Rubens’ engraving of 1634 was faithfully followed by editors in other cities: Rome (1643),
Cologne (1682), Paris (1647). In the latter édition it was clearly stated that „Iuxta Exemplar
Antverpiense”. From each of these éditions, apart from the Antwerp one, Rubens’ name was
omitted, although it was the most popular engraving of ail the éditions prepared according to
his drawing.
In 1635 Sarbiewski received the title of the Polish King’s court preacher when he was at
King Władysław IV’s court in Warsaw, where he died in 1640.
Without the initiative and help from the Antwerp Jesuits there would be no éditions of
Sarbiewski’s book in 1632 and 1634, and also no re-edition (with éditorial privilèges), or
finally, no „pirate” répétitions of Rubens’ composition of 1634.
Translatecl by Tadeusz Karłowicz
119
libr i IV were published in 5000 copies, which is proven by the remark about the payment to
the engraver, Camelis Galle I, who received as much as 37 fl. 10 st from the publisher. The
plate is 100 mm long and 51 mm wide. The inscription on the copperplate, probably like in
the case of two other front pages of the same year, was madę by Karel de Mallery. After
Rubens’ death four éditions were published in Officina Plantiniana with an engraved front page
whose size was 100 by 51 mm. The éditions took place in the years: 1646, 1647, 1659, 1669.
Rubens’ engraving of 1634 was faithfully followed by editors in other cities: Rome (1643),
Cologne (1682), Paris (1647). In the latter édition it was clearly stated that „Iuxta Exemplar
Antverpiense”. From each of these éditions, apart from the Antwerp one, Rubens’ name was
omitted, although it was the most popular engraving of ail the éditions prepared according to
his drawing.
In 1635 Sarbiewski received the title of the Polish King’s court preacher when he was at
King Władysław IV’s court in Warsaw, where he died in 1640.
Without the initiative and help from the Antwerp Jesuits there would be no éditions of
Sarbiewski’s book in 1632 and 1634, and also no re-edition (with éditorial privilèges), or
finally, no „pirate” répétitions of Rubens’ composition of 1634.
Translatecl by Tadeusz Karłowicz