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Engraving

1600-1630 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Engraving


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
After Polidoro da Caravaggio. One of 12 plates from a set of copies of vase designs by René Boyvin after Polidoro da Caravaggio. Published by Claes Jansz Visscher, Amsterdam, 1600-1630.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Cut to approximately height: 19.2cm
  • Cut to approximately width: 10.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered in the lower left of the plate: 'Polidorus inventor / CIVisscher excudebat'
Bibliographic references
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, pp.266-7, no. 590.
  • Fuhring, P., ‘Ornament Prints in Amsterdam’ (Review of M. de Jong and I. de Groot, Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw) in Print Quarterly, vol. VI, no. 3, September 1989, pp.332.
Collection
Accession number
29167:1

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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