Architectural Design Drawings

Detailed architectural sketches and designs, including decorative elements and layouts for staircases and balconies, highlighting artistic techniques from various eras.

Al Curry, Cast Iron Balcony Rail, c 1936 Cast Iron Balcony Rail

Print (France)

A drawing by Wilhelm Biswanger showing decoration for a Tableau Vivant in the Stephan apartment of the Leopoldinian tract at the Hofburg, Vienna I, for Archduchess Sophie's birthday, executed in graphite, black ink, and multicolored highlights, 1863.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris. Artist: Eugène Cicéri (French, Paris 1813-1890 Fontainebleau). Dimensions: Irregular sheet: 8 1/4 x 11 13/16 in. (20.9 x 30 cm). Date: 1830-90. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Thirteen Designs for Decorated Cups. Artist: Alfred Henry Forrester Alfred Crowquill (British, London 1804-1872 London). Dimensions: sheet: 16 3/4 x 11 7/16 in. (42.5 x 29 cm). Patron: Probably commissioned by Samuel Alcock & Company (British, active ca. 1828-1859). Date: 1845-55. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Antonio Lafreri, 1512-1577, French, Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, 1546-1590. Line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

The first lust pieces with a French Lauber train of good earth / with sand between the same. The discounts is separate and chute with a sand-way. This way one has to put on the windows of the house / as the most beautiful

Print, Two Arabesque Panel Designs; Designed by Jean-Baptiste Fay (active 1780 - 1790); Published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare (French, 1734-1799), Pierre Jean (French, 1754-1829); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Antique frieze owned by Thomas Jenkins, British antiquary and painter, engraving from Il Vignola Illustrato, by Giambattista Spampani and Carlo Antonini, printed by Marco Pagliarini, 1770, Rome.

Print, Croisées de Mansardes; Designed by Jules-François Boucher le fils (French, 1736 - 1782); Print Maker: Jean Pelletier (French, born ca. 1736); Published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez, Charles Le Pere (French, active 18th century), Pierre-Michel Avaulez (French, active 1772 - d. 1774); France; engraving on off white laid paper

Print (France)

Wnętrze oberży, projekt dekoracji teatralnej. Głowacki, Józef Hilary (1779-1858), painter

Book, L'oeuvre (Works)

Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, Lavora in Terra Cotta Ritrovato in Villa Adriana in Tivoli, 1802-1804. Graphite on thin, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

Print (France)

Drawing, Design for Mechanical Furniture: Desk; Germany; graphite, pen and ink, brush and watercolor on paper; 35.3 x 28.4 cm (13 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.)

Thèbes. Medynet-Abou Medinet Habu. 1. Coupe du second étage du pavillon; 2-7. Détails de coupes et de sculptures du pavillon.. Prints, Illustrations. 1812. Rare Book Division. Egypt, Architectural elements , Egypt , Thebes (Extinct city), Bas-reliefs , Egypt , Thebes (Extinct city), Gods , Egyptian

Drawing, Design for a sedan chair; England; pen and ink, brush and various watercolors on paper; 24.9 x 41.6 cm (9 13/16 x 16 3/8 in.)

Goupil & Cie, Portrait of Emmanuel and Jean Benner, photograph, photo, photos, height mm, width mm, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, 1866 - 1884, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century, Woodburytype

Bound Print (France); Engraved by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette (French, 1793 - 1877)

Vault with spider web, Anonymous, Hans Weiditz (II), 1514 - 1531 print Print is part of an album. paper letterpress printing spiders. (decorated) ceiling

Print (Germany)

Ferrures et ajustements, brevetés (S.G.D.G.) de la maison Bordeaux, marchand d'ornements, rue St. Sauveur, 12.. Émile Voitelain et Ce. Design drawings, Drawings. 1859. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Draperies, Upholstery

Paris, Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Charles, Boucher, Juste Nathan François, Pelletier, Jean, 51e Cahier, Vuurdokken, Feu à la moderne, Vuurdock with garland and fire, verso - stamped, An ornamented firedog with a pine cone, a garland and fire. Print number 305., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 204 mm, width 330 mm, 1736 - 1780, print maker, printmaker, 1772 - 1779, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1736 - 1782-01, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Journal des Luxus und der Moden 1786, Band I, T. 34.Wooden coffin in front of the room, in the shape of an antique sarcophagus. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Luxus und der Moden, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826.

Drawing, Two Designs for Stained Glass Windows; Designed by Alice Cordelia Morse (American, 1863-1961); USA; brush and watercolor, gouache, graphite on cream wove paper; Image (A): 14.3 x 10.2 cm (5 5/8 x 4 in.) Image (B): 7.1 x 10.2 cm (2 13/16 x 4 in.) Sheet: 27.7 x 12.1 cm (10 7/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

'Two Round Capitals'. France. Dimensions: 19,4x26,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: CHARLES-LOUIS CLERISSEAU.

Kurowski Walter von (born 1885), running fountain. Monthly competition in 1922 (1922): Riss front view 1:25; Scale bar. Ink on transparent, 24 x 28.2 cm (including scan edges) Kurowski Walter von (geb. 1885): Laufbrunnen. Monatskonkurrenz 1922

Elements of foliage.. Nicholson, Michael Angelo, -1842. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1826. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Decoration and ornament, Leaves, Decorative arts , England

Drawing, Bronze Chandelier, Kaid Bey Mosque, Cairo; Alfred Normand (1822-1909); France; pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, red, green watercolor on tracing paper mounted to heavy wove paper; 47.8 x 30.8 cm (18 13/16 x 12 1/8 in.)

Two eyes looking at a ball, Sébastien Leclerc (I), 1679 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching / letterpress printing .

Design for a part of a room wall. Draughtsman: Jurriaan Andriessen. Dating: c. 1752 - c. 1819. Measurements: h 285 mm × w 200 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Just between two trees and animal trap, Bernard Picart (workshop or), After Bernard Picart, 1730 print Two performances on a leaf. Above: just tense between two trees. Below: an animal trap or trap tense between two posts. Amsterdam paper etching catching animals

Print (France)

French crown, Paris, Chéreau, Jacques-François, Lalonde, Richard de, Le Meunnié, C., VIIe Cahier de l'Oeuvre G Cahier de Portes, Corniches et Entablements decorés, aves les profils, Entablement Dorique, Doric entablature, verso - stamped, A Doric entablature with round elements, an egg-and-dart and pine cones., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 217 mm, width 345 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1784 - 1785, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1742-10-14 - 1794-05-16, publisher, granter of privilege

Young Gaius Caesar at the court of King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia. Cesar, jeune encore, a la cour de Nicomede, roi de Bithynie. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Francois d'Hancarvilles Monumens de la Vie Privee des Douze Cesars, Chez Sabellus, Capri (Monuments of the Private Lives of 12 Caesars, Leclerc, Nancy) 1780. From imaginary Spintria, medals and cameos.

Studies of Eight Silver Pieces n.d. Jean Guillaume Moitte French. Studies of Eight Silver Pieces 384517

Coccinia abyssinica (Lam.): finished drawing, the tuber and detail of fruit, James Bruce, 1730-1794, British, undated, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 16 × 12 1/8 inches (40.6 × 30.8 cm), botanical subject

Silver Alms Dish. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 30.6 x 22.9 cm (12 1/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 1 1/4" deep; 9" in diameter. Medium: graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Simon Weiss.

Three cornices, Jean Pelletier, After Juste Nathan François Boucher, 1772 - 1779 print Prent number 219. Paris paper etching / engraving other architectural details (CORNICE)

Trophy to elevate to the glory of the emperor of Napoleon I and the Grand Army ...

Gropius Martin (1824-1880), sketch album 2 (approx. 1870): decoration studies. Pencil, ink, mounted in album, 48.2 x 30 cm (including scan edges) Gropius Martin (1824-1880): Skizzenalbum 2: Dekorationsstudien

A Reconstruction of a Castle on the Viminal Hill at the Esqualine Gate. Artist: Jan Goeree (Dutch, Middelburg 1670-1731 Amsterdam). Dimensions: 5 1/4 x 7 11/16 in. (13.3 x 19.5 cm). Date: before 1704. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Frontons de deux edifices des Xe. et XIe. siècles. .... Willemin, N. X. (Nicolas Xavier), 1763-1833. Prints. 1839. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Art , France , History

Cutting a reed pen. Eight steps are given on how to cut the point. Below that are two legends. Above and below a knife. A geometric figure in the center. The print is part of an album, Cutting a reed pen Figuere van alle de trecken der pennen Spieghel der schrijfkonste (series title), print maker: Simon Frisius, Jan van de Velde (I), (mentioned on object), print maker: Haarlem, Rotterdam, 1605, paper, engraving, h 216 mm × w 331 mm

Figura 21.: SECONDA DEL MEDESIMO PALRAZZO PIANTA, from the album Palazzi di Genova; Ryckemans, Nicolaes (Ca 1595-Fl. Ca 1616-1626), Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); 1622 (1622-00-00-1622-00-00);

Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself, 1880.

Plate X: St Stephen's Chapel, Print made by James Basire, 1730-1802, British, Artist John Topham, 1746-1803, British, Formerly unknown artist, 1795, Line engraving on slightly textured, moderately thick, white wove paper, Sheet: 15 5/8 × 22 5/8 inches (39.7 × 57.5 cm), Plate: 14 13/16 × 21 5/8 inches (37.6 × 54.9 cm), and Image: 13 1/4 × 20 1/8 inches (33.7 × 51.1 cm), architectural subject, church, City of Westminster, England, House of Commons, London, Palace of Westminster, St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom

Plate VIII: St Stephen's Chapel, Print made by James Basire, 1730-1802, British, after John Topham, 1746-1803, British, Formerly unknown artist, 1795, Line engraving on slightly textured, moderately thick, white wove paper bar scale of 4/5 inch to 1 foot, Sheet: 15 3/8 × 22 1/16 inches (39.1 × 56 cm), Plate: 14 7/8 × 21 5/8 inches (37.8 × 54.9 cm), and Image: 13 1/16 × 20 1/16 inches (33.2 × 51 cm), architectural subject, church, City of Westminster, England, House of Commons, London, Palace of Westminster, St. Stephen's Chapel, Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom

Collage of cut out prints, anonymous, c. 1870 collage. print Collage of cut out prints. Part of an album with 32 sheets, covered on both sides with cut out prints, probably from 19th-century times. paper

Passementerie, Dessins de Galons, J.R. Lucotte, French, 1750-84, Robert Bénard, French, 1734-1772, Engraving on paper, A depiction of braid designs and loom tools., France, ca. 1763, textile designs, Print, Print

Design for a Metal Frame, Giovanni Bettati, ca. 1700 - 1777, Pen and ink, brush and brown watercolor, black chalk, graphite on paper, Different details in the left and right halves. Architectural forms frame an oval. An escutcheon in the bottom center, a cherub in the top center. Angels are suggested crouching in the upper corner; a cherub at right., Italy, 1700-1777, Drawing, Drawing

Design for a secretary, draughtsman: Joseph Nussbaumer, (rejected attribution), Vienna, 1816, paper, pen, brush, h 453 mm × w 312 mm

French Crown, Paris, Chéreau, Jacques-François, Lalonde, Richard de, Berthault, 4e Cahier de l'Oeuvre D Cahier de Bordures à l'usage de la Sculpture &c, avec leurs Profils, Egg-and-dart, verso - stamped, An ornamented frame with egg-and-dart., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 219 mm, width 329 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1784 - 1785, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1742-10-14 - 1794-05-16, publisher, uitgever van privilege

Reproduction of a drawing of the sculpture of the ship Human rights (TF)

Bound Print (France); Engraved by Charles Nicolas Ransonnette (French, 1793 - 1877)

Plan and Elevation of the Church of Saints James and John. Dated: 1619. Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper restrike. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JACQUES CALLOT.

Mission Bench. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 24.2 x 35.7 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 28 1/4" high; 66" long; 13" deep. Medium: pen and ink and wash on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Geoffrey Holt.

Atelier where varieties are painted; Évaillist, Peinture des Feuilles. Atelier where ranges are painted, including nine tools. Planche II from a series of four prints with accompanying text: Évaillist, Contenant Quatre Planches. From encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisoné des sciences, des Arts et des Métiers by Denis Diderot and Jean Le around d'Alembert, Paris, 1751-1772.

Plan and view of the old Louvre Alfred Bonnardot (1808-1884). Plan and view of the old Louvre. Feather, pencil and watercolor on cream paper and on cardboard papers, 1801-1900.

Antique Trompe l'oeil wall paintings with column, festoons, plinth and figures from Pompeii, excavated 1838, and one with banners, ribbons and foliage in the Royal Museum Naples. Handcoloured lithograph by Brose after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of All Classical Art Eras, Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen, Reimer, Berlin, 1842.

Two plates. William Chaffers (English, 1811 - 1892)

Hitzig Friedrich (1811-1881), cover decoration in the house of Mr. Revoltella, Trieste. (From: Architectural sketchbook, H. 56/3, 1862.) (1862-1862): View. Lithography colored on paper, 25 x 34.8 cm (including scan edges)

Ancient Roman musical instruments from paintings and carved marble monuments in Naples, including sistrum, cithara, lute, lyre, trigono, horn and tambourine. Copperplate engraving by Pietro Ruga after an illustration by Lorenzo Rocceggiani from his own 100 Plates of Costumes Religious, Civil and Military of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans, Franzetti, Rome, 1802.

Garden with geometric ground floor and Kolf players, Anonymous, After Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1615 print Garden with a ground floor formed by low beds in a geometric pattern, consisting of a window with semicircular bulges on the straight sides. In the background is a square on which people play flask. The print is part of an album. paper etching garden. labyrinth, maze ~ garden. 'kolf' (ball game)

Design for a napkin ring. Draughtsman: Mathieu Lauweriks. Dating: 1911. Measurements: h 125 mm × w 154 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Print made by George Bickham, 1684-1769, British, Architectural Designs incorporating Chinoiserie motifs: A Chinese Single Brac'd Railing. A Hedge. Double Pailing. Gate.., 1751. Etching on moderately thick, textured, cream laid paper.

Parts of the Tabernakel, Lucas Cranach (I), 1523 - 1526 print Parts of the tabernacle, the wooden boards that are attached to each other with bronze pins, in the meeting tent. paper tabernacle, 'mishkan' ~ Jewish religion

Vestigia delle Terme di Tito. Absida conch decoration in room 25; Carlone, Marco (1742-1796), Smuglewicz, Franciszek (1745-1807), Brenna, Vincenzo (1741-1820), Manna, Pietro (17 ..- 18 ..); after 1776 (2nd edition of black and white) (1776-00-00-1801-00-00);Rome, Sas-Zubrzycki Jan, collection, Vestigia delle Terme di Tito, 1776, Illustration, archeology, antiquity, purchase (provenance)

VIAJES POR CHILE Y LA PLATA - HORNO DE FUNDICION DE ORO Y PLATA - GRABADO SIGLO XIX. Author: JOHN MIERS (1789-1879). Location: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

Three Designs for Candlesticks, Pen and ink, brush and yellow, red, gray watercolor, graphite on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Three designs for candlesticks. At left: the feet of the candlestick consist of rumps of birds. Within the base is the inscription: qui ci va / lo stemma / di chi li fa fare; the shaft consists of four parts. In the lowest one the column rises from a calyx. In the second are festoons. The third is scalloped; the fourth fluted. Upon the capital stands a bowl, from which the socket rises. Center: the pedestal of the candlestick consists of lateral leaf scrolls and a central support at which is written: qui ci va lo stemma; the lower part of the shaft is a vase, above which two calyces rise. The upper one supports similar motifs to the left one. At right, the base is decorated with festoons supported by masks. The shaft is a foliated column. That at left is marked with a cross in ink. Each of the candlesticks are numbered with the letters D, E, F from left to right

Album n � 1. Stained glass project for the castle of Stors: Decorative grounds Gsell-Laurent workshop. Album n � 1. Stained glass project for the castle of Stors: Decorative motifs. Pencil and gouache on layer paper.

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Architecture: decorative ironwork. Lithograph by J. R. Jobbins, 1852, after J. F. Colling.

Two panelings; Elévations et profils the Diiférens Lambris d'Appui; A panels and panels. Designs and profiles of two paneling.

Elevation of the project of the entrance of the Tuileries Garden Avrillet-Grange (late XVII-early nineteenth century). "Elevation of the project of the entrance of the Tuileries Garden, side of the clamp". Watercolor, feather and wash. At the end of 18th century.

Cabinet-making: a table for card games. Engraving by E. Turrell after H. Whitaker, 1848.

Carskie Sioło. Willa lorda Withwortha. Rzut piętra. Quarenghi, Giacomo (1744-1817), draughtsman, cartoonist

Upright Piano. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 22.1 x 27.5 cm (8 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.). Medium: pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lorenz Rothkranz.

Murals from houses in Pompeii (circa 300BC to AD79): upper and lower wall paintings from a house on the Strada della Fortuna in Pompeii, and a red mural probably from Heraculaneum below, now in the Royal Museum of Naples. Handcoloured lithograph by Brose from an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn in his own "Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen nach den Originalen in ihren eigenthumlichen Farben dargestellt" (Ornaments of all classical art epochs after the originals and depicted in their proper colours.), Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1870. It includes interior decorations by Giulio Romano in the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, medieval mosaics in Sicily, and Roman wall paintings from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Wilhelm Zahn (1800-1871) was a German artist, architect and academic who traveled around Europe documenting classical and Renaissance architecture.

A. J. Davis, Scrapbook IV. Artist: Alexander Jackson Davis (American, New York 1803-1892 West Orange, New Jersey). Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (43.8 x 33.7 cm). Date: n.d.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sievers Carl (1834-1891), decorative studies (1856-1856): Colored beams. Pencil watercolored on paper, 39.5 x 65.5 cm (including scan edges) Sievers Carl (1834-1891): Dekorationsstudien

Glass Furniture Design. Osler Design Pattern Book - 24 Light Alabaster On Ruby Candelabra, 1850-1900. Designer: F & C Osler (Ltd).. The Osler Archive, presented by Peter Osler, 1977.

Siennica (woj. mazowieckie). Kościół drewniany p.w. Przemienienia Pańskiego- widok na drzwi do zakrysti. Poprzęcki, Szymon (ok. 1864-1942), painter

illustration by Max Ernst, for 'Misfortunes of the Immortals'. by Paul Éluard. This image illustrates the surrealist poem by Éluard 1922

'Fragment of a Round Plafond'. France. Dimensions: 21,5x28,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: CHARLES-LOUIS CLERISSEAU.

Cross section of a Corinthian capital and proportional drawing of same. Engraving by Hans Sebald Beham after a copy of a work by Vitruvius.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Plan of St. Peter's 1569 Etienne DuPérac French This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have offered one standard, bound set of prints. Instead, clie

MAQUINA HILADORA POR RODILLO 1758.

Drawing, Design for Mechanical Furniture: Secretary Desk; Germany; graphite, pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on paper; 39.9 x 31.3 cm (15 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

Roman antiquities found at the house in Britten, 1650 - 1750 print Roman antiquities found at the house in Britten. Northern Netherlands paper etching House in Britten

Wall painting in the third style, ornamental, from an unidentified house in Pompeii. With paintings of theatre masks and gods against a blue ground, garlands and festoons above. Illustration drawn by Geremia Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn's Choix des plus Belles et Interessantes Peintures de Pompei, Choice of the Most Beautiful and Interesting Paintings in Pompeii, Weigel, Leipzig, 1882. German archeologist Presuhn (1844-1881) lived in Italy for eight years and, with Mr. Discanno, made exact copies of many wall paintings that are now lost.

Four Designs for Hanging Light Fixtures. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century. Dimensions: sheet: 16 x 9 1/8 in. (40.6 x 23.1 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Funayakata. Katsushika Hokusai (Japan, 1760-1849). circa 1836. Books. Single-page book illustration; black and white woodblock print

A drawing of Hermesvilla in Vienna XIII by Carl von Hasenauer, executed on paper using ink with spring technique and enhanced with watercolor.

Right Side (Proper) Elevation Study for "Interrelation of Volumes from the Ellipsoid". Georges Vantongerloo; Belgian, 1886-1965. Date: 1926. Dimensions: 263 × 218 mm. Pen and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper, with commercially printed black ink on the verso. Origin: Belgium. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Corinthian base from the Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome ca. 1537 Monogrammist G.A. & the Caltrop Italian This print comes from the museums copy of the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence) The Speculum found its origin in the publishing endeavors of Antonio Salamanca and Antonio Lafreri. During their Roman publishing careers, the two foreign publishers - who worked together between 1553 and 1563 - initiated the production of prints recording art works, architecture and city views related to Antique and Modern Rome. The prints could be bought individually by tourists and collectors, but were also purchased in larger groups which were often bound together in an album. In 1573, Lafreri commissioned a title page for this purpose, which is where the title ‘Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae first appears. Lafreri envisioned an ideal arrangement of the prints in 7 different categories, but during his lifetime, never appears to have off

Presentation salver in crystal silver mounted and enamelled.. Drawings, Design drawings. 1880 - 1883. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Patterns (Design elements), Decoration and ornament, Silverwork, Victorian, Goldwork, Salvers

Antique painted floor in the Villa di Arrio Diomede, Pompeii, excavated 1771-1774. Handcoloured lithograph by Konter after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of All Classical Art Eras, Ornamente aller klassischen Kunst-Epochen, Reimer, Berlin, 1834.

Hugo Sachs (as an artist): three -part ornament

Freedom, Brotherhood and Equality, Decoration on the Hogesluis, 1795, A. Verkerk, 1795 print Three columns for freedom, brotherhood and equality, allegorical decoration founded on the Hogesluis on the Amstel in Amsterdam at the Alliance party on June 19, 1795. Three columns crowned the symbols of freedom, brotherhood and equality. Part of a series of ten records. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdam paper etching festivities on events of national importance (+ festive decoration ~ festive activities) Amsterdam. Hogesluis

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