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Drawing 4 (bottom): Soffit with guilloche ornament
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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
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
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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