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Etching

c. 1573 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Anonymous (Etcher)
Lafrery (Publisher)
Place of origin
Italy (Published)

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Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Anonymous etcher and Antonio Lafrery (1512-77), publisher. Plates (23) on six sheets, representing twenty-one Antique sculptures of Roman actors' masks, an Antique head of Medusa (pl. 21), and a 16th-century sculpture (pl. 15). Italian, c.1573. Lettered variously in Latin, with the location or name of the collection where the sculpture could be found.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13.4cm
  • Width: 8.1cm
Style
Renaissance
Bibliographic references
  • 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.2046-1899

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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