Coat of arms with a monkey, a leopard, a squirrel, and a hare surmounted by a helmet with a large eagle with open beak on top surrounded by rinceaux foliage, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
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Title
Coat of arms with a monkey, a leopard, a squirrel, and a hare surmounted by a helmet with a large eagle with open beak on top surrounded by rinceaux foliage, 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 7.3 x 5.4 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.
WA1915.84.78.4
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Further reading
Hollstein, F. W. H., Hollstein German: Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-), 961
O'Dell-Franke, Ilse, Kupferstiche und Radierungen aus der Werkstatt des Virgil Solis (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977), n4
Bartsch, Adam von, The Illustrated Bartsch, Walter L. Strauss ed. (New York: Abaris Books, 1978-), no. 551 (313)
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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