Design for a Cartouche and a Representation of 'Taste', Plate 4 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.'

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

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Ornament print with a design for a rocaille cartouche, with a depiction in which a man is offered a cup of poison (likely the mythological story of King Aegeus and Theseus) in the central compartment, to illustrate the sense of 'taste'. 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 and a Representation of 'Taste', Plate 4 from 'Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild.', Johann Georg Pintz (German, 1697–1767), Etching

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