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Engraving

1590-1600 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Flowers in an ornamental vase


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
engraving
Brief description
Theodor de Bry after Jacob Kempener. Plate from a set of six showing flowers in ornamental vases. German, 1590-1600.
Physical description
Flowers in an ornamental vase
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 29.4cm
  • Cut to width: 21.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Numbered '5' in the lower left of the plate.
  • Lettered in the lower left of the plate on the plinth: 'Iacobo kempenerio pinx.'
  • Lettered in the lower right of the plate on the plinth: 'Io. Theodor de Brij . scalps.'
  • Lettered in the lower centre of the plate on a scroll: 'O FLOS sic Vernans iuuenili pudorem.'
Bibliographic references
  • Hollstein, F. W. H., et al. The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1956): vol. 4, no.43.
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no. 355.
Collection
Accession number
16880

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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