Design for a Cartouche, Plate 6 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

Johann Georg Pintz|Johannes Rumpp|Martin Engelbrecht

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

Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction of a ritual scene in which a woman cuts a man's throat (either Medea and Aeson, or alternatively Pelias and one of his daughters) in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'touch'. 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|Johannes Rumpp|Martin Engelbrecht

Date

Printed ca. 1750–56

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014