Title Plate with Blackwork Motifs, Trophies and Grotesques, from a Series of Blackwork Prints for Goldsmiths' Work

Etienne Carteron

1615 · Blackwork engraving · Drawings and Prints

Title plate with the text in a triangle at top center, with grotesques seated on top and trophies hanging from the corners. Below, blackwork motifs with Schweifwerk, including a large blackwork oval at center, flanked by vertical fillets with grotesques standing on top. Plate 1 from a series of eight plates published in Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (Ain) with blackwork designs for goldsmiths' work.

Artist

Etienne Carteron

Date

1615

Medium

Blackwork engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924