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Ornament & Design

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Engraved cartouche with scrolls and a lion mask framing a Latin quotation by Cicero, on an album page.

Cartouche met een tekst van Cicero

Frans Huys, 1557

Engraved ornamental design sheet with allegorical figures, cherubs, lion and ox, and scrollwork panels, labelled La Paix et l

Vrede en Oorlog zittend onder vier ornamenten

Portret van Jean Sylvain Bailly in een versierde cartouche

L. Meurillon, 1800

Engraved ornamental frame with acanthus scrolls, flower garlands and a fruit urn surrounding a blank oval cartouche.

Ornamentele rand rondom een lege cartouche

Jacob Gole, 1685

Engraved rococo cartouche under a radiant sun with a face, with a cannon, flags, cannonballs and a soldier with a sword.

Cartouche met zon

Benedikt Winkler, 1750

Black-and-white print of interlacing scrolling foliage, thistle leaves and birds in dense cross-hatched ornament.

Ornamental Fillet with Thistle Motifs

Daniel Hopfer, 1510-28

Etching of allegorical figures with a reclining man, a lion, and a coat of arms beneath a tree.

Ornament design for a thesis, the Strozzi coat of arms at top

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1660

Etched ornamental cartouche with blank center, grotesque masks, drapery, scrolls, and ship and windmill emblems.

Ornament Design for a Thesis on the Device: Quest' un soccorso

Stefano Della Bella, ca. 1656

Illuminated manuscript border with flowers, grapes, a snail, a dragonfly, a bird and gilded scrollwork on gold and red.

Illuminated Border with Snail, Insect, Bird, Grotesques and Flowers from a Manuscript

Unknown artist, 15th or early 16th century

Vertical manuscript border with red roses, blue scrolls and gold grotesques, plus a Latin inscription on blue.

Illuminated Border with Flora and Grotesques from a Manuscript

Unknown artist, 15th or early 16th century

Vertical illuminated border with gold scrolling vines, blue flowers, a blue grotesque creature and a gold animal head on red.

Illuminated Border with Grotesques and Flora from a Manuscript

Unknown artist, 15th or early 16th century

Etched ornamental design of three putti holding up a gadrooned bowl on a pedestal, with reeds and grapes below.

Ornamental design of three children holding up a fountain

Auguste Péquégnot, 19th century

Etched title page with a scrolling cartouche and text announcing a series on hunting, hawking and fishing, with a mask at the

Titelprent in cartouche voor een serie met verschillende jachtpartijen

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1671

Woodcut print of a turbaned funeral procession carrying a coffin past cypress trees, a domed tomb, and a distant walled town.

A Turkish Funeral from the frieze Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1553

Woodcut frieze of a mounted procession of turbaned riders and foot soldiers passing domed mosques, columns and an obelisk.

Procession of Sultan Süleyman through the Atmeidan from the frieze Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs a…

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1553

Engraving of an ornamental design with a grotesque mask, two satyrs, putti, a fruit basket and a trophy of arms.

Ornamental Design with a Couple of Satyrs, Children and a Trophy

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Engraved ornamental design with a central bat, a snail, insects, mermaid figures, a shield, and winged figures above.

Ornamental Design with a Bat in the Centre

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1550

Engraving of a grotesque head made from a helmet, drapery and birds, rendered in fine hatched lines.

A Grotesque Head with a Helmet in the Style of Arcimboldo

Dominicus Custos, 1594

Engraving of a fierce eagle between two winged putti among scrolling foliage, on a dark hatched background.

Ornament with an Eagle and Two Genii, from Four Vignettes

Sebald Beham, c. 1544

Engraved ornament of a suit of armor flanked by two winged putti among scrolling foliage, dated 1544.

Ornament with Armor and Two Genii, from Four Vignettes

Sebald Beham, 1544

Three cut-out sheets with black and white ornamental patterns of looping tendrils and heart-shaped motifs.

Ornamenten

Theo Neuhuys, 1888

Engraved title page with Neptune on sea horses, putti on turtles, fish and lobsters framing the Latin title Piscium Vivae Ico

Titelprent met zeewezens als ornamenten

Adriaen Collaert, 1598

Grey wash drawing of an allegorical frontispiece design with an empty oval cartouche, figures, a coat of arms and a ship.

Design for a Frontispiece with an Allegory of Brazil

Ottmar Elliger the Younger, late 17th-mid-18th century

Engraving of Mercury riding Pegasus in a central cartouche, surrounded by ornate scrollwork, cherubs, eagles and foliage.

Rechthoekige cartouche met Mercurius op Pegasus

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1565

Engraved ornamental plate with a central cartouche showing a woman riding a dromedary, flanked by sphinxes and foliage.

Cartouche met Fama op een dromedaris

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1565

Engraved ornament with a bearded male half-length between two nude putti, flanked by scrolls, foliage and winged creatures.

Ornament with a Male Half-Length Between Two Genii

Barthel Beham, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of an ornate urn with cherubs and a mask relief on a tall pedestal with a swag.

Design for a Tomb with an Urn

Johann Gottfried Schadow, late 18th-19th century

Pen and ink drawing of an architectural frame with male caryatids, reclining putti on a pediment, and garland swags.

Design for an Architectural Framework

Unknown artist, 16th century

Black and white print of women pouring libations at a stone tomb in a cypress grove, beside a red-bordered poem panel.

Cartouche en voorstelling van vrouwen bij het graf van Agamemnon

Walter Crane, 1887

Black and red printed page with an engraved scene of Orestes before Athene and the Furies, plus verse and a laurel-wreathed o

Cartouche en voorstelling van de vrijspraak van Orestes

Walter Crane, 1887