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Perseus & Andromeda

Print
1730-1750 (published)
Artist/Maker
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Johann Georg Hertel I
Place of origin
Augsburg (published)

Plate 3.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Print
TitlePerseus & Andromeda (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Plate from a suite of four designs for ornamnetal frames. Published by I. G. Hertel, Augsburg. First half of the eighteenth century.
Physical description
Plate 3.
Dimensions
  • Cut to. height: 29.7cm
  • Cut to. width: 19.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lettered in the lower left: 'Piazetta. del.'
  • Lettered in the lower centre with the number of the suite: '280'.
  • Lettered in the lower right: 'I. G. Hertel, exc: A; V: 3'
Object history
V&A inventory number 28493.12 is a duplicate of this plate.
Subjects depicted
Perseus
Andromeda
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p.82, 333 (25).
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatlich Museen., Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 590.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1040-1991

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Record createdJune 25, 2007
Record URL
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