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print; ornament print; album

Object Type: print; ornament print; album
Museum number: 1937,0915.444.21
Title: Series: Neue Inventiones von unterschidlich nüzlicher Silber-Arbeit...
Description: Plate 8: various designs for silversmiths; in the upper part tongs, spade, two richly ornate dishes, a trophy of arms and the profiles of two cornices; in the lower part two ewers, the one at left with lid surmounted by a woman riding an hippocamp, and spout consisting of a woman carrying a sea shell; the right ewer is decorated with a frieze running along the body, and the handle consists of a satyr kissing a satyress 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: 337 millimetres; Width: 215 millimetres
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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: metalwork; vessel
Acquisition date: 1937
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1937,0915.444.21