Dactyliotheca Philip Caniel Lippert (1702-1786) Dresden, 1792.

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Dactyliotheca Philip Caniel Lippert (1702-1786) Dresden, 1792. Book covers : Jan Mol, Amsterdam, 1792. Cabinet: Jan Eldert Glade, Amsterdam, 1792. The study of antique cameos and intaglios were highly popular in the eighteenth century. This led to the reproduction, in a kind of plaster, of some of the most famous collections of the time. The Dresden artist Lippert assembled a collection of 3149 casts in three book-shaped containers, which he produced for sale. He named it a Dactyliotheca, from the Greek word for a repository of rings and gemstones. This example was acquired in 1792 by the Amsterdam Drawing Academy.

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