print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1904,1022.3
- Title
- Series: Illustrations to Jamnitzer's 'Perspectiva'
- Description
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Title-page ornamented with symbols of the element of air; ornamental border with a face blowing wind at top centre with four putti, one playing a pipe or recorder, another blowing air and two holding wind guages. They sit on heaps of symbols of wind such as bellows, birds, portative organ, bagpipes, horn and shawm with flying insects out of scale above. Two large eagles on lower left and right. Musical instrument trophies in lower corners include lute, recorder and shawm to the right and fiddle, serpent, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes and natural trumpet to the left. Also feathers of various birds such as peacock, pheasant, ostrich, and an angels wing along the bottom border. Without letterpress title in the cartouche. Illustration to Wenzel Jamnitzer, 'Perspectiva corporum regularium', Nuremberg: Jamnitzer, 1568.
Etching
- Production date
- 1568
- Dimensions
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Height: 259 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Perspectiva (Nuremberg 1568)
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,1022.3