Key with Two Winged and Dappled Monsters, Their Tails Intertwined

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2016.70.9
People: Unidentified Artist
Title: Key with Two Winged and Dappled Monsters, Their Tails Intertwined
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Ornament for Locks
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 17th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/350313

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Engraving on cream antique laid paper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 11.7 x 5.9 cm (4 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

(not assigned): This print and the others in this group of thirteen prints of ornament for lock escutcheons (including one design for a key), are all, it seems, reprints from a later date, perhaps the 19th or early 20th century. They are printed in the chine applique technique, that is, on an exceptionally thin paper laid down on a secondary support in the process of printing. The secondary support is French paper from the late 17th or 18th century. The plates themselves, however, date from the early 17th century and do not comprise a set.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Edith I. Welch, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition: late reprinting

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edith I. Welch
Accession Year: 2016
Object Number: 2016.70.9
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

32Q: 2400 French/Italian/Spanish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/06/2019 - 06/20/2019

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2016.70.9: Key with Two Winged and Dappled Monsters, Their Tails Intertwined

Identification and Creation

Physical Descriptions

Provenance

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Acquisition and Rights

Exhibition History

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Identification and Creation

Physical Descriptions

Provenance

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Acquisition and Rights

Exhibition History

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