Research Catalog

Title

Blackwork ornament designs for gold- and silversmiths [graphic] / J. Toutin.

Author

Toutin, Jean, 1578-1644.

Publication

A Chasteaudun : J. Toutin, 1618-1619.

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Details

Description

6 prints : engraving; 13 x 12 cm.

Summary

• Series of 6 engravings by Toutin, depicting jewelry designs in blackwork incorporating "pea-pod" motifs, with vignettes in conventional line engraving, including a crowned king and castle, musicians, a goldsmith and genre scenes; some with additional ornaments and figures of insects, flowers, etc. Numbered in plate: 1-2, III, 4-6. Plate marks: ca. 11 x 8 cm.. Toutin published another similar series; the 2 series were copied as a single series by Jacob van der Heyden in Strasbourg.
• On plate 1, in banderole at top of image: "Sic vos, non vobis"; in cartouche formed by goat's horns in center of image: "1619. Si quid melius videris."
• Imprint from plate 1; identification of Toutin as engraver from sources cited. Prints are dated in plate 1618 (no. 6) or 1619 (no. 1-5; another state of plate 5 is known, lacking number and dated 1618).
• "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.

Alternative Title

• Sic vos, non vobis
• Si quid melius videris

Subjects

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

Genre/Form

Pattern books.

Indexed In (note)

• Ritter, F. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung des K.K. Österreich. Museums für Kunst und Industrie, 1889
• Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung
• 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

801718342

Author

Toutin, Jean, 1578-1644. Engraver

Title

Blackwork ornament designs for gold- and silversmiths [graphic] / J. Toutin.

Imprint

A Chasteaudun : J. Toutin, 1618-1619.

Indexed In:

Ritter, F. Kat. der Ornamentstichsammlung des K.K. Österreich. Museums für Kunst und Industrie, 1889, p. 48

Berlin. Ornamentstichsammlung, 792/1

Guilmard, D. Les maîtres ornamentistes, p. 40, no. 18

Foulc, E. Livres d'architecture, 157

Fuhring & Bimbenet-Privat. Le style "cosses de pois," cat. des estampes (Gazette des beaux-arts 139 (2002): 51-201), 540-545

Ornamental Prints Online, MAK KI 2676 F-36 S-27 Z-1, KI 2039 F-36 S-31 Z-10, KI 2039 F-36 S-31 Z-11, KI 2271 F-36 S-30 Z8, KI 2271 F-36 S-30 Z7; Kunstbibliothek Berlin OS 792 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 a series of 12 copies by Jacob van der Heyden after Toutin, and 2 other contemporary series of blackwork ornamental prints by Jacques Hurtu.

Numbered in ms.: 1, 39, 33, 41-43.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

France Châteaudun.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1614 12-94