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Engraving

1541-42 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Vico (Engraver)
Barlachi, Tomaso (engraver and publisher)
Place of origin
Rome (printed)

Panel with two satyrs ringing a bell.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Engraving
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Enea Vico and Tomaso Barlachi. Plate 3 from a set of twenty-three plates of grotesques. Italian, Rome, 1541-2.
Physical description
Panel with two satyrs ringing a bell.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28.6cm
  • Width: 21.5cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
Signed in monogram E.V Dated 1541 Lettered TOM.BARL.EXC.
Object history
See extensive note in Miller (1999), pp. 99-101.
Production
Reissue (B. XV, 488)
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Bartsch, A., Le Peintre-Graveur, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. XV, 488.
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 289, no. 24.
  • Berlin, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1939, 534.
  • Ornament and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Exhibition Catalogue, Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence, Rhode Island, 1980, 84c.
  • Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 98 (cat. 33a & 33b).
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, 's-Gravenhage, 1988, 655A.
  • Snodin Michael, Howard Maurice, Ornament. A social History Since 1450, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1996, 40.
  • The Grotesque Factor Malaga: Museo Picasso, 2012. ISBN: 9788494024917.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
20306:4

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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