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Engraving

c. 1573 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (Engraver)
Lafréry, Antonio (Publisher)
Vico, Enea (Engraver)
Place of origin
Rome (Printed)

Engraving


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Engraving
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Anonymous engraver, Plate 3 from a Reissue of Leviores et (ut videtur) extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant , Lafrery volume.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Height: 28cm
  • Width: 20.5cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed in monogram E.V. Dated 1541 Lettered TOM.BARL.EXC.
  • Numbered 3
Object history
See extensive note in Miller (1999) pp. 98-101.
Production
Reissue of Leviores et (ut videtur) extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant which in turn are reversed copy plates of a grotesque series by Enea Vico from before 1541-42 (B. XV, 488)
Subject depicted
Grotesques
Bibliographic references
  • Miller, E., A Reassembled Volume of Sixteenth-century Italian Ornament Prints Published by Antonio Lafrery (forthcoming)
  • Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 99 (cat.33d).
  • Bartsch, A., Le Peintre-Graveur, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. XV, 488.
  • 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.2064-1899

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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