Vertical Panel with Design for a Pendant, from "Omnis Generis Instrumenta Bellica"
Ornament design for a pendant with trophies at center, suspended from a mask with ram's horns at top and three pearls hanging below. In the pendant, a cuirass with spears and axes behind.
Artwork Details
- Title: Vertical Panel with Design for a Pendant, from "Omnis Generis Instrumenta Bellica"
- Series/Portfolio: Omnis Generis Instrumenta Bellica
- Artist: Paul Birckenhultz (1561–1639)
- Date: ca. 1600
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 4 9/16 × 3 3/16 in. (11.6 × 8.1 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
- Object Number: 56.500.81(2)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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