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Engraving

1560 (Made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

engraving


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Enea Vico. Plates (9) from Ex Libris XXIII Commentariorum in Vetera Imperatorum Romanorum Numismata Liber Primus. Six medals showing personifications of female virtues on each plate. The medals set into ornamental panels lettered in a cartouche at the top with names of the appropriate emperor and empress. Italian, Venice, 1560.
Physical description
engraving
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.7cm
  • Width: 9.6cm
Style
Bibliographic reference
Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 146 (cat. 43).
Collection
Accession number
E.1863-1923

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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