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Design for a vase

Etching
ca.1650 (published)
Artist/Maker
Stefano Della Bella (designer)
Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (publisher)
Place of origin
Rome (published)

Nourished both by his fertile imagination and by his observations of the natural world, in the suite Raccolta di vasi diversi, published in 1646, Stefano della Bella combines plant forms and realistic yet fantastical figures in a manner which anticipated the Rococo. It has proven to be of particular influence on successive decorative artists in many media.


Object details

Categories
Vases
Designs
Ornament Prints
Object type
Etching
Titles
  • Design for a vase (generic title)
  • Raccolta di Vasi diversi di Stef. de la Bella Fiorentino (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
Etching on paper
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Stefano della Bella (after), 1 of 6 plates, including title plate, from a suite of 6 entitled 'Raccolta di Vasi Diversi di Stef. de la Bella Fiorentino'. Italian, ca.1650.
Physical description
Designs for vases.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 8.7cm
  • To plate mark width: 20.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Raccolta di Vasi diversi di Stef de la Bella Fiorentino (Inscribed in central vase)
  • Gio. Jacamo de Rossi le stampa in Roma alla pace alla Insegna di Parigi (Inscribed to plate below vases)
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Summary
Nourished both by his fertile imagination and by his observations of the natural world, in the suite Raccolta di vasi diversi, published in 1646, Stefano della Bella combines plant forms and realistic yet fantastical figures in a manner which anticipated the Rococo. It has proven to be of particular influence on successive decorative artists in many media.
Bibliographic references
  • Alexandre de Vesme Il existe de ces six morceaux des copies en contre-partie. La copie de notre n. I) porte en bas l'adresse de De Rossi, éditeur à Rome. Les cinq autres n'ont d'autre inscription que: <> Les planches de ces copies se trouvent aujourd'hui à la Chalcographie de Rome. de Vesme, Alexandre, and Massar, Phyllis Dearborn. Stefano della Bella : catalogue raisonné. (Vol. I.) New York, Collectors Editions, 1971, pp.158-159 See for full bibliographic references. After catalogue no. 1045.(I) in this text.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1943, London: HMSO, 1956.
  • Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung, Berlin & Leipzig, 1936-39.
  • D. Guilmard, Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-81, p.315
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.84-1943

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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