Design for a Ring with a Large Faceted Gemstone, Plate 34 from 'Livre d'Aneaux d'Orfevrerie'

Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II

1561 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Design for a ring with a large faceted gemstone, set with the culet up. The band of the ring is decorated with young ignudi seated on the shoulders of bearded terms. Plate 34 is from a book of forty designs for rings by the goldsmith and engraver Woeiriot published in Lyon, France, after Woeiriot returned to France 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