1611 (published)
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Print depicting three heads of old men and six women.
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Materials and techniques | Etching |
Brief description | Print, from the first book (consisting 27 prints) of 'De Excellentia et Nobilitate Delineationis Libri Duo'. Etching by Jacopo Palma depicting studies of heads of old men and women. Published Venice, 1611. |
Physical description | Print depicting three heads of old men and six women. |
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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. |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1963 . London: HMSO, 1964. |
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Accession number | E.904-1963 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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