Four Children with a Cat and a Dog, plate nine from Twelve Ornament Panels

c. 1505–15

Giovanni Pietro da Birago
Italian, active 1470-1513

This print exemplifies a type of ornamental design that enjoyed wide popularity in the 15th and 16th centuries. Featuring fanciful decorative vases, fragments of armor, symmetrical acanthus scrolls, fantastic creatures, and frolicking putti, it was inspired by painted and carved architectural decorations from Roman antiquity. A significant number of very early engravings depict ornamental designs, suggesting there was considerable demand for them among artists, craftsmen, scholars, and collectors interested in the classical past.

Status: On View, Gallery 204
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovan Pietro Birago
Title: Four Children with a Cat and a Dog, plate nine from Twelve Ornament Panels
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1500–1520
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 53.7 × 8.6 cm (21 3/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Reference Number: 1937.100
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Hind V.79-81.10(9)

Bartsch XIII.309.29

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