Designs for Four Rings, Plate 31 from 'Livre d'Aneaux d'Orfevrerie'
Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II
1561 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints
Small oval print with designs for four rings, each with a square-cut gemstone in a central setting, set either straight or at an angle. Two rings are presented as seen from the front and two are presented in side view. The plate, numbered 31, is part of a book of forty designs for rings by the goldsmith and engraver Woeiriot, published in Lyon (France) after Woeiriot returned from a visit to Rome. The French edition, titled 'Livre d'aneaux d'orfévrerie de l'invention de Pierre Woeiriot Lorrain', appeared in 1561. An Italian edition, the 'Libro d'anella d'orefici del inventione de Piero Woeirioto di Loreno', appeared in the same year.
- Artist
- Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II
- Date
- 1561
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926