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print; ornament print; album

Object Type: print; ornament print; album
Museum number: 1937,0915.444.18
Title: Series: Neue Inventiones von unterschidlich nüzlicher Silber-Arbeit...
Description: Plate 5: designs for frames; a small rectangular frame, surmounted by an escutcheon surrounded by Mercury, two putti and a dragon, is set inside a larger frame which actually consists of the halves of two different frames joined together; the right half, octogonal, features putti and trophies of arms; the left half, oval, is supported by a slave; Fame leans in the upper part; the whole frame is surmounted by a winged figure sitting among trophies of arms and holding a wreath 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
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 338 millimetres; Width: 218 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See 1937,0915.777.14 for comment on series.
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
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1937,0915.444.18