Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 8 (recto)

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 a pattern of triangles that connect to form 2 rectangular columns, on top of which are 3 large ornamented triangles. Right column is decorated with a series of ornamented squares that form a rectangular base for 3 triangles ornamented with the same floral pattern.

Artist

Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

Date

1557

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937