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Diverses pieces povr la defence de la royne mere dv roy tres-chrestien Lovys XIII

Morgues, Matthieu de, sieur de Saint Germain, 1582-1670 · 1643 · [Anuers?] · 28 pictures

A 1643 French polemic by Matthieu de Morgues, sieur de Saint Germain, probably printed in Antwerp, defending Queen Marie de Médicis, mother of Louis XIII. The pictures are small woodcut decorated initials, each a historiated or foliate letter set in ornament, showing dense leaf scrolls, grotesque heads and animals, and a designer can take from them a model for ornamented capitals in a sixteenth-to-seventeenth-century manner.

Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642

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