print; ornament print

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Object Type: print; ornament print
Museum number: 1871,0513.368
Title: Series: Ornamenti di fregi et fogliami
Description: Plate 14: two ornamental friezes on one plate; upper frieze with a butterfly-winged putto conquering two lions at centre, with a lion's head to far right and far left, and foliage scrollwork; lower frieze with the heads of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn in within circles of scrollwork formed of foliage, fruits, flowers and snakes. c.1648 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Stefano della Bella; Published by: Veuve Langlois
School/style: Italian; French
Production date: 1645-1650
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 78 millimetres; Width: 241 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1871,0513.355 for comment on series.
Bibliographic references: De Vesme/Massar 1971 / Stefano della Bella (1000); Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (570); Fuhring 2004 / Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum - the Seventeenth Century (not described); Guilmard 1880/1 / Les Maitres Ornemanistes: Écoles Française, Italienne, Allemande et des Pays-Bas (Flamande et Hollandaise) (315.27)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament; time/seasons
Associated names: Representation of: Spring; Representation of: Summer; Representation of: Autumn; Representation of: Winter
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,0513.368

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