Suggestion for the Decoration of Lower Right and Top Right of an Altar Frame, Plate 4 from an Untitled Series with Rocailles Ornaments for Altar and Door Frames

Wolffgang Christoph Mayr|Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Printed ca. 1750–56 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

Suggestion for the Decoration of Lower Right and Top Right of an Altar Frame, Plate 4 from an Untitled Series with Rocailles Ornaments for Altar and Door Frames — Wolffgang Christoph Mayr|Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Page from an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht. The binding describes the content as cartouches (after the first series in the album) but it is much more varied, ranging from rocaille ornament and cartouches to designs for altars and pulpits, as well as allegorical compositions in which rococo ornament is featured, all by well-known Rococo designers working in Augsburg.

Artist: Wolffgang Christoph Mayr|Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner
Date: Printed ca. 1750–56
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014