Design for a Cartouche and Representation of 'Sight', Plate 2 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

Johannes Rumpp|Johann Georg Pintz|Martin Engelbrecht

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

Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction of Narcissus admiring himself in a pool of water in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'sight'. This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.

Artist

Johannes Rumpp|Johann Georg Pintz|Martin Engelbrecht

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014