Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 49 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio

1601 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Published by Cesare Vecellio, Italian, Pieve di Cadore 1521-1601 Venice, Venice. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 2 horizontal registers. Top register is decorated with a coiling vine of leaves that forms a figure-8 shape, which is superimposed by a spotted bird on the right side. Bottom register is decorated in the center with a vase of flowers that is flanked on both sides by a composite creature with a human face, lion body, and bird wing; this creature's tail attaches to the flower that exists on its outer side.

Artist

Cesare Vecellio

Date

1601

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1918