♲ @[email protected]:#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Titel page of #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT), Part I
Engraving
1616
#chess #LegendOfOrigin #XersesPhus #ChessmenAndChessSets #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
➡️ digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schach1…
1/5

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Lucas Kilian
Chessboard with two putti holding palm branches and an empty chess box; left and right: Tendrils with two sets of chess pieces
Engraving
1616
Detail from #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#ChessSet #SelenusChessmen #ChessInVisualArts #LucasKilian
2/5

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
#ChessInVisualArts
Lucas Kilian (1579-1637)
Set of chess pieces on tendrils
Engraving
1616
Detail from: #Selenus1616 (👇 ALT)
#Chessmen #ChessPiece #SelenusChessmen #VisualArts #engraving #LucasKilian
Cf. the discussion in: twitter.com/babel56/status…
4/5



twitter.com/babel56/status/158…

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Knight (Reutter)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #knight #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
5/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Pawn (Soldat)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #pawn #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
6/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Queen (Königin)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #queen #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
2/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Bishop (Schütze)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #bishop #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
4/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: Rook (Roche)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #rook #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
3/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessmenAndChessSets
Chess piece: King (König)
Engraving
from: G. Selenus, Das Schach- und König-Spiel, Leipzig: Groß, 1616
#chessmen #king #VisualArts #engraving #Selenus1616 #ChessInVisualArts
1/6

♲ @[email protected]:#ChessLiterature
#chess #RareBook #ChessInVisualArts #BookDesign #BookArt #CoverArt

Some nice examples:
#DamianoAfter1524 £12,000
#Selenus1616 £7500
#Greco1689 £900
#Ponziani1782 £1850
#Lewis1835 £225
#Forbes1860 £400
#Vida1921 £150

📷 @Quaritch
➡️ quaritch.com/wp-content/upl…










twitter.com/Quaritch/status/15…