Strapwork pendant design with Chastity, at corners man attempts to fly, man holding two bags, shield with hand holding serpent, and dog with bag on its tail, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
Details
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Title
Strapwork pendant design with Chastity, at corners man attempts to fly, man holding two bags, shield with hand holding serpent, and dog with bag on its tail, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
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Artist/maker
Dietrich Meyer (1572 - 1658) (printmaker) -
Associated people
Dietrich Meyer (1572 - 1658) (publisher) -
Associated place
Zürich (place of publication) -
Date
c. 1600 -
Material and technique
engraving on laid paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 7.6 x 7.5 cm (height x width)
plate 7.3 x 7.2 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
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1915.84.53.4
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Further reading
Jessen, Peter, Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, 2 (Berlin, 1939), no. 648
Hollstein, F. W. H., Hollstein German: Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-), 103
Warncke, Carsten-Peter, Die ornamentale Groteske in Deutschland 1500 - 1650 (Berlin: Spiess, 1979), vol. 2 p. 92 no. 811
Fuhring, Peter, Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century (Amsterdam, 2004), vol. 1 p. 280-281 no. 1652
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