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Reference number

SM volume 115/157d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (bottom): Soffit with guilloche ornament

Aspect

Ornamental composition

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • 1625/35
    Date range: 1625/35

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over ?graphite

Hand

Seventeenth-Century Hand 1 (Codex Ursinianus Copyist)

Notes

This fourth seventeenth-century drawing shows part of a soffit decorated with guilloche formed of two rows of linked volutes, with an adjoining band ornamented with overlapping discs. The same soffit is depicted in a mid- sixteenth-century drawing in Copenhagen, but this is executed with much greater precision, the discs in the border all alternating with flowers, which are only indicated very sketchily in the Coner drawing towards the left.

OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon.] Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. Kongl. Kobbersticksamling, Tu ilat. Mag., xvii, fol. 31

Literature

Ashby 1904, p. 73
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 652–53
Census, ID 45485

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.

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