Engraving
1550-1564 (printed)
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Engraving
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Engraving |
| Brief description | Enea Vico. Portrait bust of Petrach's Laura set in an elaborate cartouche. Plate from a series of medals of contemporaries. Italian, 1550-1564. |
| Physical description | Engraving |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Lettered around the cartouche:
'LURA DEL . PETRARCA' |
| Object history | There is a print from a another state of this plate in the British Museum (inventory number: 1873,0809.937), see Bartsch no.237). This has an inscription on the medallion below the cartouche which in V&A inventory number E. 990-1885 is left blank. |
| Bibliographic reference | Spike, John, ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 30. Italian masters of the sixteenth century: Enea Vico. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 237. |
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| Accession number | E.990-1885 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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