Group of insects and animals on a plain ground with grass, including a butterfly, a dragonfly, a moth, a cricket, a lizard, a frog, and a snail, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
Details
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Title
Group of insects and animals on a plain ground with grass, including a butterfly, a dragonfly, a moth, a cricket, a lizard, a frog, and a snail, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
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Artist/maker
Virgil Solis (1514 - 1562) (printmaker) -
Associated place
Nuremberg (place of publication) -
Date
1530 - 1562 -
Material and technique
etching on laid paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 5.1 x 10 cm (height x width)
plate 4.7 x 9.9 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
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Museum location
Western Art Print Room
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1915.84.73.1
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Further reading
Hollstein, F. W. H., Hollstein German: Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-), 495
O'Dell-Franke, Ilse, Kupferstiche und Radierungen aus der Werkstatt des Virgil Solis (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977), g79
Bartsch, Adam von, The Illustrated Bartsch, Walter L. Strauss ed. (New York: Abaris Books, 1978-), unmentioned
Warncke, Carsten-Peter, Die ornamentale Groteske in Deutschland 1500 - 1650 (Berlin: Spiess, 1979), unmentioned
Groot, Irene Margaretha de, Jong, Marijnke de, Ornamentprenten in Het Rijksprentenkabinet (Rijksmuseum, 1988), unmentioned
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