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Print

ca. 1573 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ornamental foliage with a nude man looking upward.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Brief description
Gaspar Reverdino, Enea Vico and Antonio Lafrery, one of seventeen plates on twelve sheets of dancing putti and friezes of foliate design. Italian, c. 1573.
Physical description
Ornamental foliage with a nude man looking upward.
Dimensions
  • Platemark height: 9.7cm
  • Platemark width: 24.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Numbered V
Object history
Ref: Elizabeth Miller: 'Catalogue 9b forms part of the Lafrery Volume and corresponds to the entry Libro de fresi et fogliami in Lafrery's stocklist of 1573 (Ehrle, p. 59). The double numbering of pairs of prints that occur together on one page in the Lafrery Volume indicates that these images were always intended to be printed together... Impressions of ten of the plates in Catalogue 9b but before the addition of the Roman numerals are in the Escorial collection. These plates, E. IX, 35. (446) and E. IX, 37.1-9(4448-54,4456-7) correspond to plates III upper, IIII lower, V upper, VI upper and lower, VII-IX, XI and XII in the set described [in this volume].'
Production
Reissue of original series by Monogrammist F. (of which V&A has one plate: E.2529-1929), renumbered and with sixteen new subjects.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Bartsch, Adam von, 1757-1821. The illustrated Bartsch. New York : Abaris Books, 1978-.
  • Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre Graveur. Vienna, 1811, XV, 458.
  • Miller, Elizabeth. 16th-Century Italian Ornament Prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: V&A Publications, 1999, Cat. 9b.
  • Berliner, R. and Egger. G. Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts. 3 vols. Munich, 1981. p.365.
  • Ehrle, F. Roma Prima di Sisto V La Pianta di Roma Du Pérac-Lafréry del 1577. Rome, 1908. p.59.
  • 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
Accession number
E.2106-1899

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