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print; ornament print; album

Object Type: print; ornament print; album
Museum number: 1937,0915.444.14
Title: Series: Neue Inventiones von unterschidlich nüzlicher Silber-Arbeit...
Description: Title-page; with title lettered within oval cartouche decorated with strapwork, putti and sphinx; in the lower part a scene showing a blacksmith (Vulcan?) leading a woman holding a caduceus to a forge, outside which some putti are seen gathering vessels Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Johann August Corvinus; After: Abraham Drentwett II; Published by: Jeremias Wolff
School/style
Production date: 1698-1724
Production place: Published in: Augsburg
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Dimensions: Height: 335 millimetres; Width: 216 millimetres
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Curator's comments: From a series of eight ornament plates representing designs for silversmiths, engraved by Corvinus afer designs by Drentwett, and published by Jeremias Wolff. The set is bound in an album containing ornament plates mostly consisting of designs for goldsmiths, clockmakers and locksmiths.
Bibliographic references: Berlin 1939 / Katalog der Ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin (956); 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) (408.90(4))
Location: Not on display
Subjects: ornament; forge/foundry
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1937,0915.444.14