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Print

1532-1553 (published)
Artist/Maker
Perino Del Vaga (designer)
Master of the Die (engraver)
Salamanca, Antonio (publisher)
Place of origin
Rome (published)

Plate 2. Panel of ornament. Scrolling foliage, amongst which is a seated cupid holding a weathercock between two eagles. Above is a satyr surprising a nymph.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Engraving on paper
Printing Ink
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
Master of the Die after Perino del Vaga, Reissued plates (3) from a set of six panels of ornament. Italian, Rome, 1532-53.
Physical description
Plate 2. Panel of ornament. Scrolling foliage, amongst which is a seated cupid holding a weathercock between two eagles. Above is a satyr surprising a nymph.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 20.7cm
  • Cut to width: 15.7cm
Object history
From Miller (1999), p. 85:
Bartsch called these prints 'after Raphael', but in 1966 Konrad Oberhuber attributed them to Perino del Vaga on the basis of a drawings for plate 2 in the Uffizi (Oberhuber, pl. 36). The plate numbering follows Bartsch.

Historical significance: This print comes from a set of six plates. A drawing for one of the other plates attributed to Perino del Vaga survives in the Uffizi. The two verses of Italian poetry make an explicit connection between the image and the excavation of underground rooms in Rome.
Bibliographic references
  • Miller, Elizabeth. 16th century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 1999. pp.85-87, cat 28b, plate 3, with reference to other literature.
  • Bartsch, A., Le Peintre-Graveur, 21 vols, Vienna, 1803-21, vol. XV, 81.
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 287, no. 18.
  • Berlin, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1939, 530.
  • Ornament and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Exhibition Catalogue, Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence, Rhode Island, 1980, 60.
  • Byrne, J.S., Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of art, New York, 1981, 45.
  • González de Zárate, J.M., Real Colección de Estampas de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 10 vols, Vitoria-Gastiez, 1992-5, vol. VII, 33, 34, 37 (2986, 2987, 2990).
  • Berliner, R. and Egger, G., Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 vols, Munich, 1981, 268.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
29468:1

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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