Research Catalog

Title

Blackwork ornament designs for gold- and silversmiths [graphic] / I.H.

Author

Hurtu, Jacques.

Publication

[Paris] : P. Fir[ens] ex[cudit], ca. 1614.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Firens, Pierre, approximately 1580-1638.
• Hanias, Johannes.

Description

6 prints : engraving; 13 x 12 cm.

Summary

• Series of 6 engravings by Jacques Hurtu, publshed by Pierre Firens, depicting jewelry designs in blackwork incorporating "pea-pod" motifs, with marginal figures in conventional line engraving, including birds, flowers and fruits. Numbered in plate: I, 2-6. Plate marks: ca. 11 x 7 cm. or smaller.
• Abbreviated name of publisher from plate 1; artist's initials incorporated in designs of plates 1-5 and printed separately in plate 6. Identification of artist and publisher and place and approximate date of publication from sources cited; Hollstein erroneously ascribes to Johannes Hanias.
• "Blackwork" here refers to a style of ornamental engravings executed in Northern Europe between the 1580s and the 1620s to provide enameling designs for jewelers; chief distinguishing characteristic is the inclusion of areas of solid black. The style was formerly known in English as niello (distinct from the earlier Italian engraving style) or silhouette style. Cf. Christie, R. "Blackwork prints : designs for enamelling," in Print quarterly, v. 5, no. 1 (Mar. 1988), p. 4-20.

Subjects

• Jewelry > Design > Early works to 1800
• Decoration and ornament, Baroque > France
• Enamel and enameling > Design > Early works to 1800
• Pattern books

Genre/Form

Pattern books.

Indexed In (note)

• K.K. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie. Ornamentstichsammlung, 1871
• Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung
• BN fonds français, 17. s.
• Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum, 17th cent.
• Hollstein, F.W.H. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts
• Guilmard, D. Les maîtres ornamentistes
• Foulc, E. Livres d'architecture
• Fuhring & Bimbenet-Privat. Le style "cosses de pois," cat. des estampes (Gazette des beaux-arts 139 (2002): 51-201)
• Ornamental Prints Online

Additional Formats (note)

• Digital images (Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst/MAK and Kunstbibliothek Berlin copies) available online via Ornamental Prints Online.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1614 12-94

OCLC

801716423

Author

Hurtu, Jacques. Engraver

Title

Blackwork ornament designs for gold- and silversmiths [graphic] / I.H.

Imprint

[Paris] : P. Fir[ens] ex[cudit], ca. 1614.

Indexed In:

K.K. Österreichisches Museum für Kunst und Industrie. Ornamentstichsammlung, 1871, p. 52

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 786/2

BN fonds français, 17. s., V, p. 392, Hurtu, no. 3

Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum, 17th cent., 1725 (plate 4)

Hollstein, F.W.H. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts, XIIa, p. 142, no. 33-38

Guilmard, D. Les maîtres ornamentistes, p. 40, no. 17

Foulc, E. Livres d'architecture, 118, no. 2

Fuhring & Bimbenet-Privat. Le style "cosses de pois," cat. des estampes (Gazette des beaux-arts 139 (2002): 51-201), 189-194

Ornamental Prints Online, MAK D 608 F-36 S-21 Z-1 to Z-6; Kunstbibliothek Berlin OS 786 aufg.

Additional Formats

Digital images (Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst/MAK and Kunstbibliothek Berlin copies) available online via Ornamental Prints Online.

Local Note

Bound with 3 other contemporary series of blackwork ornamental prints, by Hurtu and by or after Jean Toutin.

Numbered in ms.: 46, 43, 35-38.

Place of Publication

France Paris

Added Author

Firens, Pierre, approximately 1580-1638. Publisher

Hanias, Johannes. Attributed name

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1614 12-94