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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.70.9
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Key with Two Winged and Dappled Monsters, Their Tails Intertwined
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Ornament for Locks
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
17th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/350313

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Engraving on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11.7 x 5.9 cm (4 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • (not assigned): This print and the others in this group of thirteen prints of ornament for lock escutcheons (including one design for a key), are all, it seems, reprints from a later date, perhaps the 19th or early 20th century. They are printed in the chine applique technique, that is, on an exceptionally thin paper laid down on a secondary support in the process of printing. The secondary support is French paper from the late 17th or 18th century. The plates themselves, however, date from the early 17th century and do not comprise a set.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edith I. Welch, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
late reprinting

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edith I. Welch
Accession Year
2016
Object Number
2016.70.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/06/2019 - 06/20/2019

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