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This and 16 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques).

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1945

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2024

  • You found it!

Print, Plate 17, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

This is a Print. It was designed by Jan Vredeman de Vries and etched by Johannes van Doetechum the Elder and Lucas van Doetechum and published by Gerard de Jode. It is dated 1564 and we acquired it in 1945. Its medium is etching on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.

  • Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration
  • pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper .
  • Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and....
  • 1994-64-1

Its dimensions are

H x W: 18.8 × 27.2 cm (7 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.) Platemark: 15.7 × 20.7 cm (6 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Watermark: two-handled vase

It is inscribed

Inscribed in brown ink, left margin: "17"

Cite this object as

Print, Plate 17, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques); Designed by Hans Vredeman de Vries (Dutch, 1527 - ca. 1606); Published by Gerard de Jode (Flemish, 1509 - 1591); Etched by Jan van Doetechum the Elder (Netherlands), Lucas van Doetechum (Dutch, after 1584); France; etching on laid paper; H x W: 18.8 × 27.2 cm (7 3/8 × 10 11/16 in.) Platemark: 15.7 × 20.7 cm (6 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1945-59-5

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