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Print

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

Plate 10.

Second state.

Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Etching and engraving
Brief description
Virgil Solis. Ceres. Plate from a series of 12 showing women from mythology within an ornamnetal border of strapwork. German, 1530-1562.
Physical description
Plate 10.

Second state.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 11.2cm
  • Cut to width: 8.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Numbered '10' in the upper centre of the plate.
  • Lettered in the centre of the plate: 'CERES'
  • Signed with the monogram 'VS' in the lower centre of the plate.
Credit line
From the Lanna Collection.
Bibliographic references
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no. 454.
  • 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. 101.
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 63, Virgil Solis, Part I, no.243.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions 1910, London, Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office 1911
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2844-1910

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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