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Artist/Maker	G. A. (engravers (printmakers)) Lafrery, Antonio (publisher)
Place of origin	Rome (published)

Antonio Lafrery (1512-1577), a very successful Italian printer and print dealer, published this print as one in a set of 30 images. All the prints in the set depict elements of ancient Roman architecture. In 1573, Lafrery was the first person anywhere in Europe to have the idea of producing a catalogue of the prints he had for sale. Lafrery's catalogue description for his sets of architectural prints was: 'Books of cornices, capitals and bases after the antique ruins that you can daily discover in Rome'.

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Categories	Access_to_Images 2003 Prints Architecture Ornament Prints SCRAN
Object type	Print
Materials and techniques	Engraving on paper
Brief description	Plates (30) on fifteen sheets of cornices, capitals and bases of Antique buildings in Rome. Italian, c. 1573.
Physical description	Corinthian base
Dimensions	Plate height: 13.1cm Plate width: 17.6cm
Style	Renaissance
Subject depicted	Bases (Object Components)
Summary	Antonio Lafrery (1512-1577), a very successful Italian printer and print dealer, published this print as one in a set of 30 images. All the prints in the set depict elements of ancient Roman architecture. In 1573, Lafrery was the first person anywhere in Europe to have the idea of producing a catalogue of the prints he had for sale. Lafrery's catalogue description for his sets of architectural prints was: 'Books of cornices, capitals and bases after the antique ruins that you can daily discover in Rome'.
Bibliographic references	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
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.2011-1899

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Record created	December 2, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86634/print-g-a/

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