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Print, Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)
This is a Print. It is dated ca. 1575 and we acquired it in 1945. Its medium is engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Sixteenth-century ornament prints served as inspiration for pottery decorators long into the 18th century. Pouncing, a technique of piercing clay with small dots and rubbing charcoal into the holes to transfer a design, was used in decorations based on print engravings. The fantastic animals and mythological figures in Delaune’s grotesque designs have parallels in the monochrome blue faience nearby.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- Print, Sense of Smell, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
- blackwork engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1945-6-1-a
- Print, Sense of Taste, Plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
- blackwork engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1945-6-1-b
- Print, Sense of Sound, plate from Quinque sensum typi in usum aurifabroru...
- blackwork, engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1945-6-2-a
Our curators have highlighted 15 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Print, Grotesque Frieze with Bear Hunt
- engraving on white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
- 1944-67-2
- Print, Plate 27, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren
- etching on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1945-59-15
- Print, Juno, from the series Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et...
- engraving on off-white laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1945-6-3-2
Its dimensions are
Platemark: 6.5 × 8.3 cm (2 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.)
It is inscribed
[lower left]: Cum Privilegio. Regis [lower right]: Stephanus Fecit
Cite this object as
Print, Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories); France; engraving on off-white laid paper; Platemark: 6.5 × 8.3 cm (2 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.) Mat: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane; 1945-6-3-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.
