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Ouvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices et gentillesses representees en l'industrieuse decoupure d'un chappeau

Engraving
1636 (First published)
Artist/Maker
Boutemie, Denis (Designer)
Balthazar Moncornet (Publisher)
Unknown (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Paris (Published)

engraving


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Designs
Object type
Engraving
TitleOuvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices et gentillesses representees en l'industrieuse decoupure d'un chappeau (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Denis Boutemie (after), 1 of 20 plates, including title plate, frontispiece and lettered tailpiece from a suite of 20 entitled, 'Ouvrage Rare et Nouveau Contenant plusieurs desseins de merveilleuse recreation sous diverses caprices [...]'. French, 1636.
Physical description
engraving
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 13.3cm
  • Width: 20.6cm
Object history
Early state before numbers. According to Fuhring there are other sets in the INHA and Leipzig.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 52, 61 (2).
  • Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 310.
  • Fuhring, P., 'Denis Boutemie: A Seventeenth-Century Virtuoso' in Print Quarterly IX 1992, pp.46-55.
  • 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.197-1927

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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