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Engraving

mid-16th century (engraved)
Artist/Maker
Anonymous (Engraver)
Place of origin
Rome (engraved)

Engraving

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Engraving
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Printing Ink
Engraving
Brief description
Anonymous engraver. Leviores et (ut videtur) extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant. One from a set of 19 plates of grotesques.
Physical description
Engraving
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.2cm
  • Width: 14.5cm
Style
Renaissance
Object history
See extensive note in Miller (1999), pp.98-101.
Production
Reversed copy plate of Enea Vico grotesque series from before 1541-42.
Bibliographic references
  • Jessen, P., Meister des Ornamentstiches, eine Auswahl aus vier Jahrhunderten, vol. 1, Gotik und Renaissance, Berlin, 1924.
  • Berlin, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1939, 533.
  • Berliner, R. and Egger, G., Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 vols, Munich, 1981, 277-9.
  • Ornament and Architecture: Renaissance Drawings, Prints and Books, Exhibition Catalogue, Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence, Rhode Island, 1980, 84a & b.
  • Byrne, J.S., Renaissance Ornament Prints and Drawings, Metropolitan Museum of art, New York, 1981, 59.
  • Miller, E., 16th-century Italian ornament prints in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1999, p. 98 (cat. 33c).
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, 's-Gravenhage, 1988, 655.
  • González de Zárate, J.M., Real Colección de Estampas de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 10 vols, Vitoria-Gastiez, 1992-5, vol. IX, 38.1-16 (4458-73)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
20305

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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