1568 (Made)
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Strapwork cartouche, surmounted by two putti holding baskets of fruit, with two female demi-figures below; in the central panel, a swan in front of a laurel tree.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Engraving |
| Brief description | Bartolomeo da Brescia, plate 2 from a set of 16, each used as the frontispiece to a chapter of Rime de Gli Academici occulti con de loro imprese et discorsi, printed by Vincenzo Sabbio, Italian, Brescia, 1568. |
| Physical description | Strapwork cartouche, surmounted by two putti holding baskets of fruit, with two female demi-figures below; in the central panel, a swan in front of a laurel tree. |
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| Object history | The museum holds 11 of the 16 plates. From Miller (1999), p. 117. A copy of the book is in the British Library (82.g.23). The plates are numbered here according to the order of the chapters that they illustrate. Each plate includes the armorial bearings of the author of the related chapter. |
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| Accession number | E.1081-1923 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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