Grotesque ornament fillet with a Putto surrounded by foliage

HEEL, Johann Wilhelm (Augsburg, 1637 - Nuremberg, 1709).

Grotesque ornament fillet with a Putto surrounded by foliage. From Neüs Blum und Laube Büchlein Zufinden Beij Paulus Fürsten Seel: Wittib und Erbern series. Plate 7.

Etching, 1665

120x170 mm.

Numbered "7" in lower left corner.

Provenance: a non identified collector´s mark on the verso (Lugt 4034).

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Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.

Honey, W. B., "Johann Heel of Nuremberg", The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 60, No. 348 (Mar., 1932), pp. 132-133 and 136-140.

Honey, W. B., "Johann Heel: Some Newly Identified Works", The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 66, No. 387 (Jun., 1935), pp. 266-267 and 270-271.

Reichl, Otto, Eine Ornamentfolge von Johann Heel aus dem Jahre 1665, Berlin: 1926