Designs for jewellery by Arnold Lulls
Album
ca. 1590 (made)
ca. 1590 (made)
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Drawing from an album of jewellery designs. The pendant consists of the Sacred Monogram 'IHS' in long diamonds cut in a triangular section set in gold with a gold crown of thorns and decorative scrolling in coloured enamels, with a drop pearl.
The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.
The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold.
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| Materials and techniques | Designs in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold, in a calf skin album |
| Brief description | Drawing of a pendant from an album (in 25 parts) of designs for jewellery (aigrettes, rings, pendants, etc) by Arnold Lulls, consisting of the Sacred Monogram 'IHS' in long diamonds cut in a triangular section. Dutch School, ca. 1590. |
| Physical description | Drawing from an album of jewellery designs. The pendant consists of the Sacred Monogram 'IHS' in long diamonds cut in a triangular section set in gold with a gold crown of thorns and decorative scrolling in coloured enamels, with a drop pearl. The album consists of three preliminary leaves of contemporary laid paper (two with unidentified watermarks), forty leaves of vellum and three final leaves of paper corresponding to those at the front of the album. Inserted are nine sheets of paper and three of vellum bearing designs, notes, transcripts of letters etc. 92 pages, full-bound in contemporary calf skin, gold-tooled, gilt edges, with fragments of green silk ties on the fore-edges of the front and back covers. The drawings are in pencil, pen and ink, wash, body-colour and gold. |
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| Production | The design is illustrated by Fritz Falk as plate 67 in 'Edelsteinschliff und Fassungsformen', Ulm, 1975. It is close in design to an IHS pendant in the Cabinet des Medailles, in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, which is illustrated by Falk in plate 66. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Referenced in: Hayward, J. 'The Arnold Lulls Book of Jewels and the Court Jewellers of Queen Anne of Denmark'. Archaeologia. v.108, pp. 227-237. London, 1986. |
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| Accession number | D.6:5-1896 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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