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Vigilate Qvia Nescitis Diem Neqve Horam

Print
1553 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Benedetto Battini (Designer)
Hieronymus Cock (Publisher)
Place of origin
Antwerp (Published)

Hand coloured engraving on blue paper.

Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
TitleVigilate Qvia Nescitis Diem Neqve Horam (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Benedetto Battini. Plate from a suite of 27 designs for cartouches with quotations or meditations from classical and other authors, engraving, hand coloured, published Antwerp, 1553.
Physical description
Hand coloured engraving on blue paper.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark height: 11.6cm
  • To plate mark width: 17.1cm
Style
Mannerist
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lettered in the cartouche on the left: 'Faber est / quisqe for: / tune sue' The cartouche on the right is lettered: 'Aequa laus / est a laudatis / laudeaj, et / ab improbo / improbari'
  • The plate is numbered '9' in the lower right corner.
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p.290, 26.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatlich Museen., Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 543.
  • Riggs, Timothy, Hieronymous Cock, Printmaker and Publisher, 1977, p.311.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
14357:12

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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