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Design for grotesque decoration

Maker

Polifilo Giancarli (artist)
active 1628-1636 (Life dates)

(etcher)
1573-1638

Title

Design for grotesque decoration

Date of Production

1600 - 1625

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 14.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.413

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Staatliche Kunstbibliothek, Katalog der ornamentstichsammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Berlin, Verlag für kunstwissenschaft 1939
no. 559

Bartsch, Adam, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1803-21
XVII.280.51

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : POLIPHILVS GIANCARLI. In.

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right & recto : : .OF. Inci

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