Accession number:
PML 55623, plates 130-136
Published:
[Rome : Lefrery, 1573?]
Description:
13 prints on 7 leaves : engraving ; approx. 190 x 140 mm, or smaller (horizontal designs approx. 140 x 190 or smaller)
Credit:
Gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1965.
Notes:
Title and publication information from Miller.
13 engravings of strapwork cartouches, numbered 1-13, executed by an unidentified Italian engraver after designs by the Netherlandish artist Hans Vredeman de Vries, published in Antwerp 18 years earlier in 1555, as part of a work entitled: Variarum Protractionum (vulgò Compartimento vocant) ... nos. 14-26. Cf. Miller.
Engravings formerly attributed to Gaspar Reverdino.
Variant Title:
Frames
Provenance:
Jacques Auguste de Thou (inscription), Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr., Henry S. Morgan.
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