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Print

mid 16th century (Made)
Artist/Maker
Vico, Enea (Engraver)
Salamanca, Antonio (Publisher)
Place of origin
Italy (Made)

Two friezes with ornamental foliage, lacking a third upper frieze. This impression shows the middle frieze with a bird and a mask seen in profile, and the lower frieze with a grotesque figure with a female head and a foliate tail.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Paper
Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Enea Vico and Antonio Salamanca. Two friezes with ornamental foliage. Italian, mid-16th century.
Physical description
Two friezes with ornamental foliage, lacking a third upper frieze. This impression shows the middle frieze with a bird and a mask seen in profile, and the lower frieze with a grotesque figure with a female head and a foliate tail.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 13.9cm
  • Cut to width: 23.6cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed in monogram E.V.
  • Lettered Ant. Sal. exc.
Production
A reissue of B. XV, 454
Subjects depicted
Foliation
Rinceaux
Bibliographic references
  • Bartsch, A., Le Peintre-Graveur, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. XV, 454.
  • Berlin, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1939, 536.
  • Berliner, R. and Egger, G., Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 vols, Munich, 1981, 363.
  • González de Zárate, J.M., Real Colección de Estampas de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 10 vols, Vitoria-Gastiez, 1992-5, vol. IX, 36. (4447).
  • Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 61 (cat. 13).
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
16793

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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