Design for a mirror: richly ornate mirror with central scene representing Jason and Medea, who is throwing Pelias into a pot, from Douce Ornament Prints Album II
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Title
Design for a mirror: richly ornate mirror with central scene representing Jason and Medea, who is throwing Pelias into a pot, from Douce Ornament Prints Album II
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Artist/maker
Etienne Delaune (1518 - 1583) (printmaker) -
Associated place
France (place of publication) -
Date
1561 -
Material and technique
engraving on laid paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 22 x 10.5 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.
WA1915.85.23.2
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Further reading
Robert-Dumesnil, Alexandre P., Duplessis, George, Le peintre-graveur français, ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch., 11 vols (Paris: G. Warée: Mme Huzard, 1835-1871), IX.96.314
Linzeler, André, Adhémar, Jean, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des estampes et de la photographie: Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du seizième siècle (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-1971), 308
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