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Strapwork Cartouches with Interlaced Band Patterns

Etched by: Unidentified artist, Netherlandish, 16th century
Designed by: Hans Vredeman de Vries (Netherlandish, 1527–1606?)
Published by: Hieronymus Cock (Netherlandish, 1510–1570)
About 1555–60
Place of Publication: Antwerp, Belgium

Medium/Technique Etchings
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 21.5 x 5.3 cm (12 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number50.6.13
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Antwerp: Hieronymus Cock [about 1555-1560]

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 217; Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish, vol. 47, 121-136; Rijksprentenkabinet, Ornamentprenten, 167
Description(Antwerp: Hieronymus Cock [about 1555-1560]) Folio; 16 leaves; original gilt-stamped armorial green vellum binding (green cloth box). BOUND with: 50.6.1-12 and .14-.15 (Hoffmann album)

Ornamental cartouche designs with elaborate strapwork borders. Unsigned, the plates are recorded as being in the inventory of Cock's widow. The MFA set is misbound in the following order: L, M, H., G, C, B, P, A, O, Q, K, I, E, D, N, F.
ProvenanceFerdinand Hoffmann von Grünpichl-Strechau (b. 1540 -d. 1607), Prague; given by Ferdinand Hoffmann to his wife, Margaretha von Harrach; by descent through the Counts Harrach to the Hradec Library, Czech Republic. 1950, sold by William H. Schab, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)