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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.
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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.