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Print

1611 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print depicting studies of ears, eyes, mouths and noses.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print from the first book (consisting 27 prints) of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo'. Engraving after Jacopo Palma depicting studies of ears, eyes, mouths and noses. Published Venice, 1611.
Physical description
Print depicting studies of ears, eyes, mouths and noses.
Dimensions
  • Size of volume height: 35.9cm
  • Size of volume width: 25.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Jacobus Franco Formis con Privilegio.' (Lettered with variations)
  • (Inscribed in ink inside the front and back covers of the volume with numbers)
Object history
This print is from the first book of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo', published by Giacomo Franco in Venice in 1611. The first book consists of studies of parts of the human figure, of which there are fourteen etchings by Jacopo Palma (called Il Giovane) and thirteen engravings made after him. Both the first and second books are quarter-bound in brown-calf parchment boards. The volume contains sixty-four plates on fifty-five sheets, four pages of letterpress, with two initial letters, a dedication to J. B. Duval, a discourse by the publisher, Giacomo Franco, and an epigram.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection
Accession number
E.909-1963

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