Visus or Sight: a woman admiring herself in a mirror with a peacock, surrounded by ornamental frame with two nudes, from a series of Five Senses, from Douce Ornament Prints Album II
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Title
Visus or Sight: a woman admiring herself in a mirror with a peacock, surrounded by ornamental frame with two nudes, from a series of Five Senses, from Douce Ornament Prints Album II
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Artist/maker
Francis Cleyn (c. 1582 - 1658) (printmaker) -
Associated people
Thomas Rowlett (1641 - 1649) (publisher) -
Associated place
London (place of publication) -
Date
1646 -
Material and technique
etching on laid paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 9 x 19.5 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.
WA1915.85.21.1
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Further reading
Hollstein, F. W. H., Hollstein German: Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-), 11
Rudolf Berliner, Gerhart Egger, Ornamentale Vorlageblätter des 15. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, 3 (Klinkhardt and Biermann, 1981), 278.3
Fuhring, Peter, Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century (Amsterdam, 2004), 594
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