Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 6 (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 composed of 3 vertical columns. Left column is decorated with a pattern of diamonds and curvilinear organic forms. Middle column is decorated with a pattern of white leaves in between white semi-circles upon a black background. Right column is decorated with a pattern of diamonds connected together by squares with a white-and-black checkerboard ornamentation.

Artist

Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

Date

1557

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937