Le Pompe: Opera Nova, title page (verso)

Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

1557 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Published by Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design is for bobbin lace and is composed of 2 vertical columns. Left column is decorated with various linear motifs and 2 figures standing under arches formed by rounded and zigzagging lines. Right column is decorated with 3 flowers attached to a curving vine that rests upon a series of ornamented squares.

Artist

Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

Date

1557

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937