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Spring

Etching
1530-1562 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Virgil Solis (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (Printed)

Plate 1.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Etching
Titles
  • Spring (assigned by artist)
  • Lencz (published title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Virgil Solis. Spring. Plate from a suite of four representing the seasons in triumphal processions. German, 1530-1562.
Physical description
Plate 1.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 5.3cm
  • Cut to width: 24.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed with the monogram 'VS' in the centre of the plate on the carriage.
  • Lettered in the upper right of the plate: .I. LENCZ
  • Lettered with names above each of the figures (from left to right): VEN' MARS MELP VRANIA ELIO EVTERPE VER COPIDO FLORA SA' MERCVRI
Bibliographic references
  • Peters, Jane S., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 19 (Part 1). German masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis: Intaglio Prints and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 133.
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 64, Virgil Solis, Part II, nos.373-376.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.851-1927

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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