Design for a Cartouche and Representation of 'Smell', Plate 5 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

Johann Georg Pintz|Martin Engelbrecht|Johannes Rumpp

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

Design for a Cartouche and Representation of 'Smell', Plate 5 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.' — Johann Georg Pintz|Martin Engelbrecht|Johannes Rumpp

Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction of two figures kneeling in front of an altar (likely the mythological story of Iphis and Ianthe praying to Isis) in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'smell'. 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: Johann Georg Pintz|Martin Engelbrecht|Johannes Rumpp
Date: Printed ca. 1750–56
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014