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Engraving - Cornice

Cornice

  • Object:

    Engraving

  • Place of origin:

    Rome (published)

  • Date:

    ca. 1573 (published)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Lafréry, Antonio, born 1512 - died 1577 (publisher)
    Unknown (Engraver)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Engraving on paper

  • Museum number:

    E.1984-1899

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

Antonio Lafrery published this print as one in a set of 30 images. All the prints show examples of elements of ancient Roman architecture. Lafrery was a very successful Italian printer and print dealer. In 1573, he was the first person anywhere in Europe to have the idea of producing a catalogue of the prints he had for sale. His catalogue gives a description of his sets of architectural prints. It reads, 'Books of cornices, capitals and bases after the antique ruins that you can daily discover in Rome'.

Physical description

Engraving

Place of Origin

Rome (published)

Date

ca. 1573 (published)

Artist/maker

Lafréry, Antonio, born 1512 - died 1577 (publisher)
Unknown (Engraver)

Materials and Techniques

Engraving on paper

Dimensions

Height: 13 cm size of plate, Width: 16 cm size of plate

Descriptive line

Plates (30) on fifteen sheets of cornices, capitals and bases of Antique buildings in Rome. Italian, c. 1573

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 184 (cat. 50a).
Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, pp. 126-31 (cat. 39).
Elizabeth Miller, 'Antonio Lafreri's architecture and ornament volumes: Crossing the boundary between books and volumes of prints in late sixteenth-century Rome', Renaissance Studies, 33 (2019), 761- 788

Materials

Printing ink

Techniques

Engraving

Subjects depicted

Cornice

Categories

Ornament prints

Collection

Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection

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