Hendrik Abbe

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scanned copy of one of the styles of Hendrik Abbe's signature

Hendrik Abbe was a Flemish painter, engraver and architect. [1]

Life [ edit ]

Abbe was baptized in 1639 in the cathedral at Antwerp . Some prints by him were published in Antwerp in 1670. [1] An edition of Ovid 's Metamorpheses , published by Francois Foppens in Brussels in 1677, was partly illustrated with plates by other engravers after drawings by Abbe. [2]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Bryan 1886
  2. ^ "Metamorphosen" . Universitatsbibliothek Augsburg . Retrieved 28 September 2015 .

Sources [ edit ]

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Bryan, Michael (1886). "Abbe, Hendrik" . In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A?K) . Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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