Willem Hondius - Portret van Maurits, prins van Oranje
Summary
Portret van Maurits in een geornamenteerd ovaal met randschrift. In een cartouche zijn naam.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
Tags
prints
paper
engraving
willem hondius
prins van oranje
high resolution
portrait
prince of orange
cartouche
cartouches graphic
prince
dutch
maurice prince of orange
rijksmuseum
netherlandish
Date
1623
in collections
Source
Rijksmuseum
Link
Copyright info
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")