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Print

1510-1551 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A design for goldsmith's ornament containing a Moresque design.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Brief description
Anonymous French artist, previously attributed to Jean Gourmont, Moresque design for goldsmith's ornament, France, 1510-1551
Physical description
A design for goldsmith's ornament containing a Moresque design.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 6.6cm
  • Cut to width: 4.9cm
Bibliographic references
  • Peter Ward Jackson, Some Main Streams and Tributaries in European Ornament from 1500 to 1750, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1969, 21.
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no.566.
  • 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.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Accession number
E.3320-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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