Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 8 (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 a set of intertwining lines forming ovals with triangles above. Right columns is decorated with a pattern of overlapping circular shapes connected to black rectangles, squares, and quatrefoils that are all ornamented with white dots.

Artist

Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

Date

1557

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937