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Etching

1530-1562 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Print, etching with engraving


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Etching and engraving
Brief description
Virgil Solis. Pitcher with a toroise and two lizards. Plate from a suite of 24 designs for bowls, goblets, and other vessels. German, 1530-1562.
Physical description
Print, etching with engraving
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 26.0cm
  • Cut to width: 13.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
Signed with the monogram 'VS' in the lower left of the plate.
Credit line
From the Lanna Collection.
Object history
V&A inventory number E.870-1927 is a reduced copy of this print by an anonymous engraver.
Bibliographic references
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 64, Virgil Solis, Part II, no.620.
  • 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. 530.
Collection
Accession number
E.2874-1910

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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