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Vases

Etching
1548-49 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Du Cerceau, Jacques Androuet (I) (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Orléans (Printed)

Etching on paper

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleVases
Materials and techniques
Printer's ink, paper, etching
Printing Ink
Paper
Etching
Brief description
Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, Design for a vase, etching, French, mid 16th century.
Physical description
Etching on paper
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.7cm
  • Width: 6.4cm
Styles
Late Renaissance
Mannerist
Object history
From a suite of 49 plates, designs for ewers, urns, amphoras and vases, known as 'Vases'.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D. Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, 11.
  • Geymüller, H. von Les Du Cerceau, leur vie et leur oeuvre (Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1887) p. 321.
  • Linzeler, A. and Jean Adhémar. Inventaire du fonds français; graveurs du seizième siècle (Paris: M. Le Garrec; Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-1935, 1938): vol. 1, pp. 64-65.
  • Guillaume, J., P. Fuhring and V. Auclair [et al.] Jacques Androuet du Cerceau : 'un des plus grands architectes qui soient jamais trouvés en France' Paris. c. 2010, pp. 308.
  • Snodin, M. and Maurice Howard, Ornament: a social history since 1450 New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the V&A Museum, c1996, p. 32, fig. 25.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1910, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1911
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4311-1910

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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