Ornamental Friezes and Grotesques

A series of intricate engravings featuring floral scrolls, grotesque figures, and animals, highlighting ornate designs from different artistic periods.

Frieze projects; Le Pautre, Jean (1618-1682), Stapf, Johann Ulrich (CA 1642-1706); around 1660-OK. 1670 (1601-00-00-1700-00-00);

Cartouche with a female Herme on either side, Nicolaes de Bruyn, after Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1581 - 1635 print Both Hermen wear a basket full of fruits and tendrils on the head. Copy of magazine XIII (RP-P-1977-1450) from the series Exercitatio Alphabetica Nova et Utilissima .... shaded background. One of 6 sheets from a series of 8 Netherlands (possibly) paper etching

Scheppig Carl (1803-1885), St. Peter Church in Salzburg. Ornaments (08/17/1832): Details. Pencil on paper, 18.6 x 11.9 cm (including scan edges) Scheppig Carl (1803-1885): Kirche St. Peter, Salzburg. Ornamente

Drawing, Design for a Brooch; Italy; pen and ink on paper

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Bonnet Veil; silk

Design for the Decoration of Firearms. Culture: French, Versailles. Designer: Workshop of Nicolas Noël Boutet (French, Versailles and Paris, 1761-1833). Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 4 5/8 in. (8.6 x 11.7 cm). Date: ca. 1795-1805. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sketch for the Rear Arched Area of a Chapel, with an Angel and Three Putti Holding Up a Plate with the Head of the Baptist. Artist: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century. Dimensions: 10-1/2 x 14-15/16 in. (26.6 x 38 cm), irregular.. Date: 1700-1780. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Design for an Entablature Carved with Acanthus 1822 Anonymous, British, 19th century British. Design for an Entablature Carved with Acanthus 386526

Drawing, Design for Gate, Horses; Designed by William Hunt Diederich (American, b. Hungary, 1884-1953); USA; black crayon, graphite, color pencil on paper mounted on ribbed paper; 18.5 x 19 cm (7 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Album n � 1, stained glass project with arabesques and monograms Gsell-Laurent workshop. Patterns project with arabesques and monograms. Pencil on layer.

Festoen with a large flower in the middle that hangs down, Michiel Mosijn, After Francoys Dancx, After Jacob van Campen, 1655 - 1678 print Amsterdam paper engraving

Visscher, Gerrit, Amsterdam, The fourth part of the new t' Zaamen flown name Letters made by Gerret Visscher in Amsterdam on the Singel near the Beuling Sluijs, Four cartouches with monograms, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 155 mm, width 202 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1690 - 1710, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), etching, Work conception, after own design by

Freggi dell'architettura. Agostino Mitelli (Italy, Battidizzo, 1609-1660). Italy, 1645. Prints; engravings. Two engravings on one sheet, uncut

Unknown architect, bronze door for a museum. Monthly competition November 1880 (11,1880): View (corner section); Scale bar. Pencil watercolor on the box, 35.4 x 47.8 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Bronzetür für ein Museum. Monatskonkurrenz November 1880

Copper engraving 'Ornament Growing from a Grass Bush' by Martin Schongauer, late 15th century, depicting botanical elements emerging from a grass base in a decorative composition.

Design for an Embroidered Altar Front, Brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Drawing includes the center and right half of the embroidery design. At bottom left, two crossed green branches with pink ribbon; the branches continue across the design as rinceaux. Above, at left, a gold cross, crown, and key. In the border, two of the charges of the coat of arms of Pope Pius VII: three gold stars at upper right and the Pax - charge at center right. Framing lines, except at left., Italy, 1800-23, embroidery & stitching, Drawing, Drawing

Germany, Birckenhultz, Paul, Ornaments for goldsmith's work, Copies of prints on the reverse with decoration for rims and cups, Rim with a frieze at the top decorated with leaf tendrils, recto top left - handwritten in ink, Frieze with leaf tendrils, originating from the plant in the middle of the decoration below. A cherub floats on either side of the plant. One of 6 partly numbered leaves. Reverse copies after the prints of the series described under Orn Cat I-317., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, 2, height 95 mm, width 136 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1571 - 1639, third quarter 16th century, fourth quarter 16th century, first quarter 17th century, second quarter 17th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1561 - 1639, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Tailpiece, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, USA, Pen and ink on illustration board, A symmetrical design composed of garlands of roses, with streamers of ribbons at center., USA, ca. 1905, graphic design, Drawing, Drawing

Augsburg, Hertel, Johann Georg (I), Habermann, Franz Xaver, Rocaille motifs, verso - stamped, Publisher number 103., print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 195 mm, width 298 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1731 - 1775, paper, papier, etching, etchings, German, 1721 - 1796, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1695 - 1775, publisher

Tragedy, Juno, Jupiter in Hymen, C. Le Meunnié, After Richard de Lalonde, 1784 - 1785 print Four soffites as trophies and two vases. Top left tragedy with a hat and bars, right above Juno with peacock springs, left under Jupiter with winged scepter and lightning bolts, right below Hymen with a torch, arrows and wreaths. Paris paper etching / engraving 'Tragedia' (Ripa). (story of) Juno (Hera). (story of) Jupiter (Zeus). (story of) Hymen(aeus)

Schlemm O., Akanthusblatt (without dat.): Akanthus attempts. Pencil on paper, 35.4 x 49.8 cm (including scan edges) Schlemm O. : Akanthusblatt

Domenico Bonavera (aka Domenico Bonaveri) (Italian, ca. 1640 - ca. 1700). Plate 8 from the set of Twelve Ornament Friezes, ca. 1670. Etching. Plate: 278 mm x 116 mm (10.94 in. x 4.57 in.).

Cathedral, Stendal: Details (from: Sketch and photo album 28)

Daniel Mignot, Eleven Different Studs and Twenty Three Ornaments, 1593 Eleven Different Studs and Twenty-Three Ornaments

Friedrich M., Ornamtik Breitestraße 5, Berlin. (From: Architecton. Sketches from Alt-Berlin, ed. Akad. Architects Association, H.28, Berlin 1904.) (1904-1904): Views 1: 5, 1:10. Light pressure on paper, 34 x 24.1 cm (including scan edges)

Sheet of Balusters, Black chalk on off-white laid paper, Two rows of four balusters each, the left halves being shown., Italy, 1700-1725, ornament, Drawing, Drawing

Groningen, Jelissen, Meynert, Callot, Jacques, Black ornaments for gold and silversmiths and enamellers, Three elongated Schweifwerk ornaments, Four flowers at the top, four dancing Commedia dell'arte figures at the bottom (after Callot), print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 142 mm, width 190 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1622 - 1622, first quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after a design by, French, 1592-08-21 - 1635-03-24, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Two men walking after the other push a car on which a woman sits, Anonymous, After Cornelis Floris (II), After Cornelis Bos, 1551 - 1552 print The woman is in a loop of rolling work. At the front, a woman drives on a deer. Belongs to series of 4 sheets. Netherlands (possibly) paper etching hoofed animals: deer. chariot, triumphal car. ornament ~ grotesque

Detail ceiling painting, 1656 print A detail of the ceiling painting 'The meeting of the gods' by Giovanni Lanfranco in Villa Borghese, with ornament and naked figures. The print originally belonged to Liber 22 of the Atlas of Rome by Michiel Hinloopen (Schijnvoet Book 10). paper etching / engraving the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa). ornaments ~ art

Schmalz Otto (1861-1915), travel sketches from Pompeii, Naples and Rome (10.03.1887): Naples: Altar Council S. Anna (view). Ink on paper, 30.6 x 42.8 cm (including scan edges)

Drawing, Designs for a Bowl; Italy; pen and ink, brush and wash on paper

Kaulbach Friedrich August (1850-1920), Fries in the staircase of the new museum in Berlin (approx. 1900): Continuous children's frieze with the ironic relativization of monumental world history (3 photos on a carrier). Photo on paper, 32.9 x 44.4 cm (including scan edges) Kaulbach Friedrich August (1850-1920): Fries im Treppenhaus des Neuen Museums, Berlin

Drawing, Strapwork Design; Italy; charcoal, pen and ink, brush and watercolor, white heightening on paper

Drawing, Project for Trophies with the Arms of the Passion; Italy; pencil, pen, brush and grey ink on paper

Buda in decorative letters; Buda vinta dalli austraci. The decorative letters D and A. The letters are partly built or equipped with vessels, vessels, weapons and soldiers. Above the Venetian weapons. Print in honor of the recovery of Buda on the Turks in 1686.

L'Air The air. Marot, Daniel, 1661-1752. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1875 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Decoration and ornament, Architectural

Amsterdam, Wit, Frederik de, Campen, Jacob van, Dancx, Francoys, Mosijn, Michiel, Verscheide Nieuwe Festonnen, Festoon with three sunflowers in the middle, print, ornament print, prints, ornament prints, height 145 mm, width 223 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1630, print maker, printmaker, 1655 - 1678, third quarter 17th century, fourth quarter 17th century, fourth quarter of the 17th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), - 1703, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Work conception, 1595 - 1657-09-13, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1631 - 1706, publisher

Ceiling of an adjoining cabinet at the Hôtel de Villette lounge, Voltaire mortuary house, 1 rue de Beaune. Paris (7th arr.). Photograph by Ferdinand Roux. Gelatino-silver-bromide draw, January 14, 1905. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 123100-14

Paris, Le Père & Pierre-Michel Avaulez, Charles, Boucher, Juste Nathan François, Pelletier, Jean, 59e Cahier, Gates, Gates with flower motifs, verso - stamped, Three wrought iron gates with flower motifs. Print number 349., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 301 mm, width 175 mm, 1736 - 1780, print maker, printmaker, 1772 - 1779, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1736 - 1782-01, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

An ornamented wrought iron choir screen with a vase at top left, Choir screen Porte D'Entr, print maker: Carl Albert von Lespilliez, (mentioned on object), François de Cuvilliés (Sr.), (mentioned on object), Keizerlijk hof, (mentioned on object), Germany, 1745, paper, etching, engraving, h 368 mm - w 244 mm

French crown, Paris, Chéreau, Jacques-François, Lalonde, Richard de, Foin, Augustin, F Cahier de petites Bordures, Vier grenzen, verso - gestempeld, Four ornamented borders with round elements, leaf and flower motifs and medallions., print, prent, ornamental print, prints, prenten, ornamental prints, height 189 mm, width 160 mm, 1726 - 1759, 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

Roman No 2 Plate XXVII From The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones published by Day & Son London 1865

Drawing, Design for Decoration of a Ceremony; Carlo Marchionni (Italian, 1702-1786); Italy; black crayon, brush and gray watercolor on laid paper; 34.6 x 18.4 cm (13 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)

'She Stoops to Conquer' Act 3, Act 5, Alfred Parsons, 1847-1920, British, undated, Pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/16 x 11 1/16in. (33.2 x 28.1cm) and Sheet: 13 1/8 × 11 1/8 inches (33.3 × 28.3 cm), architectural subject

Geornamente Erksels; New Invention or Designed by Schnapback Doses. Four Thegs Van Snuifdozen Met ornaments en Bladmotieven.

Sketch of Two Friezes, Palazzo Mattei. Artist: Attributed to Thomas Hardwick (British, London 1752-1829 London). Dimensions: sheet: 7 9/16 x 14 1/2 in. (19.2 x 36.8 cm). Date: 1776-79. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Painted wood panels in the Museum of Decorative Arts, era of King Louis XIII, Paris. Bemalte Holzfuellungen Louis XIII, Musee des arts decoratifs, Paris. Chromolithograph by Richard Hendorf from Ernst Ewalds Farbige decorationen, alter und never Zeit (Color decoration, ancient and new eras), Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1889.

Eight designs for jewelry, nine insects and three leaf rights; Ein Neues Buch von Allhand Gold-Arbeit. Leaf 8 from series of 17 sheets.

Design for a ceiling with trophies and a trompe l'oeil coffers 1830-97 Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise French. Design for a ceiling with trophies and a trompe l'oeil coffers 385128

Bound Print (France)

Veere, Schwartzenbach, Jacob, Designs for funeral announcements, verso - stamped, print, ornamental print, prints, height 159 mm, width 164 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1763-01-19 - 1805-05-07, print maker, printmaker, 1773 - 1805, paper, papier, etching, etchings

An escutcheon with a crown on top, above two crossed branches with a mask above the crossing point. Two angels flow beside it, the left one blowing the trumpet, the right one raising the trumpet with his left hand, supporting the crown with his right one. Usual background. Date: 1780-1800. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

A Stag, A Study. Theodore Roussel; French, worked in England, 1847-1926. Date: 1890-1898. Dimensions: 61 × 91 mm (image/plate); 67 × 91 mm (sheet). Soft ground etching in black on cream laid paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Letter M, Anonymous, c. 1600 - c. 1699

Bound Volume, Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament; William Delacour (French, 1741 - 1767); Engraved by François Vivares (French, 1709 - 1782); France; engravings on white laid paper, bound in half-calf and marbled boards; Open: 41.4 x 48.1 x 11.7 cm (16 5/16 x 18 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Two large and two small motifs consisting of leaf vines and flowers, c. 1690 - c. 1700 print From series of 6 sheets with examples of ornaments for silversmiths. Amsterdam paper engraving ornament derived from plant forms

Renaissance ornament

Two rectangular frames, Augustin Foin ,, After Richard de Lalonde, 1784 - 1785 print On the left a rectangular frame with helmet, shields, phaces and horns of abundance. On the right a rectangular frame with vase, torches, garlands and a medallion. Verso drawing of two faces. Paris paper. pencil etching / engraving ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)

Gypsum Model for a Vault Decoration of the Richelieu Pavillon in the Louvre Palace. Share of meeting of the Tuileries at the Louvre 1852-1857, album 4.

Germany, Proger, Gilich Kilian, Handle of a knife, decorated with leaf tendrils, verso below - stamped, The decoration consists of a straight central stem with small side shoots., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 116 mm, width 29 mm, width 19 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1500 - 1600, 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of da Cortona (from a set of six) ca. 1771 French One of nine panels forming originally a decorative frieze in the cabinet intérieur of Étienne-François, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785) at his chteau of Chanteloup. In an anonymous drawing dating to ca. 1771, six of the frieze panels are seen in the dukes private cabinet, one of the most richly decorated rooms in the castle, placed above large paintings by Giovanni Paolo Panini. Together the paintings and carved frieze panels, each with a medallion of a celebrated Italian artist framed by tied branches of laurel leaves and ribbon-tied garlands of flowers, commemorated Choiseuls successful ambassadorship to the Vatican in 1753-1757. This particular panel has the portrait of the Italian painter and architect Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), as is identified with the name “Crotone” below. His rendering was most likely based on a medal. Overall, this and the other panels recall the decorative vignett

Cover Design for Louis Couperus Psyche, Jan Toorop, in or before 1898 drawing Psyche is naked on the back of the flying horse Chimera. Around Psyche and the wings of the horse a pattern of lines and star forms. paper. pencil. chalk the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure. fabulous animals ~ hoofed animals: winged horse. ornament ~ starforms

. From series of 24 gothic letters with braid: A-I, K-T and V-Z.

Paris, Chéreau, Jacques-François, Delafosse, Jean Charles, Berthault, IIe Volume De l'Oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse, 34e Cahier KK Pendules, Feux, Tables Gâines &c, Four high tables, verso - stamped, Four high ornamented tables or pedestals with half-figures, sphinxes, dolphins and putti., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 229 mm, width 372 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1771 - 1771, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, French, 1734 - 1791-10-11, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, 1742-10-14 - 1794-05-16, publisher

Photo production of an ornament drawing of a window crown by Hendrik Johannes Jesse, Anonymous, After Hendrik Johannes Jesse, 1892 - 1900 photomechanical print This print is part of an album. after design by: Leidenprinter: Amsterdampublisher: Amsterdam paper photolithography façade (of house or building) Leiden

Corner piece of a ceiling with a cartouche containing a personification of Justice, Design for a corner piece of ceiling with personification of Justice Four parts of a ceiling design with personifications (series title), draughtsman: Mattheus Terwesten, intermediary draughtsman: Augustinus Terwesten (I), 1680 - 1757, paper, h 472 mm × w 471 mm

Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 46 (recto). Designer: Pietro Paulo Tozzi (Italian, active 1593-1628). Dimensions: Overall: 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (15 x 20 cm). Publisher: Libraria del Giesu , Padua. Date: October 1, 1604.Designed by Pietro Paulo Tozzi, published by Libraria del Giesu, Padua. Calligraphy by Antonello Bertozzi and Sebastian Zanella, scribes of Padua.Design is composed of a central rectangle upon which calligraphic text is printed. Surrounding all sides of the middle section are rounded rectangular motifs that are each ornamented with a different floral pattern. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Werner Max, draft stitch according to the given program. (From: Prints of seminar works by the Royal Technical University of Berlin, Vol. II) (12.02.1902): View. Pressure on paper, 24.3 x 33.4 cm (including scan edges)

Rollerwork with female herme; Frisians with grotesken, rollerwork, fantasy stations, animals and leaf refrences. On the left as the right is a fantasy bird. Belongs to series of 6 sheets.

Vignette with two lions and a child, after 1616 - Before 1689 print Lions jump out of two leaves, in the middle is the upper body of a child holding a star and a half moon. Paris (possibly) paper engraving

Design for the middle part of the St. Lievensmonster tower, spire of the St. Lievensmonster church at Zierikzee, middle, print maker: Anthonis Pietersz. van der Willigen, Andries Keldermans (I), Zierikzee, 1619 and/or 1700 - 1799, paper, engraving, h 425 mm × w 370 mm

Ornamental design for front of a chest with winged lion and bear. Artist: Anonymous, French, 19th century (); Anonymous, German, 19th century (). Dimensions: sheet: 3 11/16 x 4 15/16 in. (9.4 x 12.5 cm). Date: 19th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Bound Print (France)

Charles James Richardson, 1806-1871, British, Ceiling of Front Parlor House in Old Palace Yard, 1871. Graphite, pen and black and brown inks, with brush applied to brown ink on smooth, medium, white laid paper.

Dancing Japanese Woman, Lucien Pissarro, 1911 print Pages 7 and 8 from "Poems Tirés du Livre de Jade". On the left leaf a poem by Li Tai PE and a round show with a dancing Japanese woman. On the right page the continuation of the poem and an ornament of leaf vines. print maker: Englandprinter: Hammersmithpublisher: Hammersmith paper letterpress printing illustration ~ printed matter, book. dancing. Asiatic races and peoples

Rudolf Seitz (1842-1910, as a painter): Ceiling and wall paintings executed in the German-National Art Trade Exhibition Munich 1888. (Verlag Callwey, 17 plates in color printing, recorded by Stefan Herweg, ed. By Friedrich Nauert)

Drawing, Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy; France; pen and black ink, brush and grey watercolor on white laid paper; 46.8 × 48.3 cm (18 7/16 in. × 19 in.)

Ceiling of Front Parlor House in Old Palace Yard, Charles James Richardson, 1806-1871, British, 1871, Graphite, pen and black and brown inks, with brush applied to brown ink on smooth, medium, white laid paper, Sheet: 12 1/4 × 10 3/8 inches (31.1 × 26.4 cm), architectural subject, City of Westminster, England, London, Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom

Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877), pilaster chapter in Nienkirchen (without dat.): Two details: palmetten frieze and ligament frieze ornamentation. Pencil on transparent, 4.2 x 22.6 cm (including scan edges) Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877): Pilasterkapitelle, Nienkirchen

Hôtel Beauharnais, Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture, L'Hôtel Beauharnais, Bibiothèque, Details of the interior of the library, verso - stamped, photomechanical print, photographs, 5, recto - printed, 2, furniture details, Rijks Normaalschool voor teekenonderwijzers Amsterdam, height 449 mm, width 327 mm, maker, manufacturer, 1875 - 1930, paper, papier, collotype, Publication (Event), Publication, French, publisher, ornament derived from plant forms

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