Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)
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Object Details
- After
- Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder, French, ca. 1515 - after 1584
- Etcher
- Luca Bertelli, Italian, ca. 1560 - 1594
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A bird is shown in the center. Birds, griffins, satyrs, dragons, mermaids with masks. A medallion showing two horses grazing before a town.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane
- ca. 1562
- Accession Number
- 1945-6-4-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Engraving on white paper
- Dimensions
- 10.4 × 6.7 cm (4 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1945-6-4-2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f3f0d90a-7a60-4ae6-8a96-2e36c662156d
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