Design for a Cartouche, Plate 6 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

After Johannes Rumpp Central European
 Engraver Johann Georg Pintz Central European
 Publisher Martin Engelbrecht German

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Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction of a ritual scene in which a woman cuts a man's throat (either Medea and Aeson, or alternatively Pelias and one of his daughters) in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'touch'. This print is bound in an album containing 27 series with a total of 122 ornament prints from the fund of the prominent Augsburg publisher Martin Engelbrecht.

Design for a Cartouche, Plate 6 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.', After Johannes Rumpp (Central European, active Augsburg ca. 1730-1750), Etching

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