Title Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'Orfeburie

Title Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'Orfeburie

Jacques Caillard

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Goldsmiths' bouquet with the title in a wreath composed of decorative flowers and leaves. Text continues at bottom, flanked by C-scrolls. From a series of six plates by Caillard, published by Briot in Paris in 1627. Another edition was published in Paris in 1629, as well as a series of reverse copies in Dutch, engraved by Willem Hondius and published in 1628.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'OrfeburieTitle Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'OrfeburieTitle Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'OrfeburieTitle Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'OrfeburieTitle Plate with Goldsmiths' Bouquet, from Livre de Toutes Sorte de Feuilles Pour Servir a l'Art d'Orfeburie

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