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Print

1616 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An engraving depicting a design for a pendant. The allegorical female figure of Prudence, shown holding a mirror, appears in the centre of the pendant. Beneath her the Latin word for prudence 'prudentia' is written.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Print after Daniel Mignot, design for a pendant ornamented with the figure of Prudence, plate 5 from a suite of copies in reverse by Johann Theodor de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry after Daniel Mignot's suite of 8 plates designs for pendants with the Cardinal Virtues, German, 1596-1610
Physical description
An engraving depicting a design for a pendant. The allegorical female figure of Prudence, shown holding a mirror, appears in the centre of the pendant. Beneath her the Latin word for prudence 'prudentia' is written.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 15.0cm
  • Cut to width: 9.9cm
  • Cut to height: 15.4cm
  • Cut to width: 10.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
Signed with the monogram 'DM' in the lower left corner and lettered 'F.' in the lower right of the plate.
Production
Plate 5.

Third edition.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1956): vol. 4, nos.313-320.
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, nos. 373.
  • Fuhring, P., ‘Ornament Prints in Amsterdam’ (Review of M. de Jong and I. de Groot, Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw) in Print Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 3, September 1989, pp.322-34.
  • Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 1980): vol. XXVIII, no.227.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Accession number
E.3329-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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