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Spring

Etching
1530-1562 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Virgil Solis (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (Printed)

Etching.

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleSpring (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Printing Ink
Etching
Brief description
Virgil Solis. Spring. Plate from a suite of four representing the seasons in triumphal processions. German, 1530-1562.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 5.3cm
  • Cut to width: 24.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lettered 'SOL' in the upper centre of the plate.
  • Signed with the monogram 'VS' in the lower right of the plate.
Object history
V&A inventory numbers E.2528-1913 and 25873 are duplicate impressions from the same plate.
Bibliographic references
  • Peters, Jane S., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 19 (Part 1). German masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis: Intaglio Prints and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 133.
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 64, Virgil Solis, Part II, nos.373-376.
  • Peters, Jane S., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 19 (Part 1). German masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis: Intaglio Prints and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 163.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1913, London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2528-1913

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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