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Fides

Engraving
1530s-50s (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Virgil Solis (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (Printed)

Engraving showing Faith


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Allegory
Prints
Object type
Engraving
Titles
  • Fides (assigned by artist)
  • Faith (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Virgil Solis. Faith. Plate from a series of personifications of 8 virtues set in landscapes. German, 1530s-50s
Physical description
Engraving showing Faith
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 6.7cm
  • Cut to width: 8.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lettered in the upper right of the plate: 'FIDES'
  • Signed with the monogram 'VS' in the lower right of the plate.
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. 211.
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 63, Virgil Solis, Part I, no.98.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.400-1926

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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