Design for a Cartouche and a Representation of 'Taste', Plate 4 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Georg Pintz|Johannes Rumpp

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

Design for a Cartouche and a Representation of 'Taste', Plate 4 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.' — Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Georg Pintz|Johannes Rumpp

Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction in which a man is offered a cup of poison (likely the mythological story of King Aegeus and Theseus) in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'taste'. 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: Martin Engelbrecht|Johann Georg Pintz|Johannes Rumpp
Date: Printed ca. 1750–56
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014