Cartouche met twee zeepaarden die elkaar bijten en twee kleine cartouches met zeewezens, Stefano della Bella, 1646

Title(s)

Cartouche met twee zeepaarden die elkaar bijten en twee kleine cartouches met zeewezens
Cartouches (series title)
Raccolta di varii cappricii (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

9/18

Object number

RP-P-OB-35.213

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme (Della Bella) 1035-2(3)
• Jombert (Della Bella) 124
• Orn Cat II 727

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Stefano della Bella (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Stefano della Bella (mentioned on object)
• publisher: François Langlois (mentioned on object)
• Franse kroon (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: France
after own design by: France
publisher: Paris
France

Dating

1646

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 237 mm × width 189 mm

What

• ornament ~ cartouche
• sea-horse, hippocamp, 'hippocampus', (horse/fish) (mythological hybrid monster)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Stefano della Bella : catalogue raisonné, p. 157, cat.nr. 1035
• Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II : the seventeenth century, dl. 1, p. 150, cat.nr. 727
• Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Etienne de la Belle, peintre et graveur florentin, p. 129, cat.nr. 124