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Nouveaux Portraitz et Figures de Termes pour User en l'Architecture etc.

Print
c. 1592 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print showing a term with a hog's body as a support, entangled with a serpent


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleNouveaux Portraitz et Figures de Termes pour User en l'Architecture etc. (Series title)
Materials and techniques
woodcuts and etchings (in the series)
Brief description
Joseph Boillot, plate taken from the Nouveaux Portraitz et Figures de Termes pour User en l'Architecture, designs for terms composed of different animals, French, c. 1592.
Physical description
Print showing a term with a hog's body as a support, entangled with a serpent
Dimensions
  • Cut to approx. height: 27.5cm
  • Cut to approx. width: 9cm
Marks and inscriptions
Etchings are signed 'J.Boillot' on the plate. In most cases the plate numbers have been cut off.
Object history
Complete volume is in the National Art Library (K.2.43, Special collections)
Production
From the volume Nouveaux Portraitz et Figures de Termes pour User en L'Architecture: Composez et enrichiz de diversité d'Animaulx, representez au vray, selon l'Antipathie et contrarieté naturelle et chacun d'iceulx
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard descibes all the plates as woodcuts, with no mention of the etchings. Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 21 (1).
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 3922.
  • Describes each individual plate and the frontispiece, vignettes, cul-de-lampe etc. (IFF) Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 – , tome premier (16ème siècle), p. 98-115.
Collection
Accession number
15249

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Record createdDecember 7, 2005
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