4605B
Ornamental band
Ornamental band
- Artist
- Workshop of Antonio Ricardo (ca. 1540 - 1605/1606)
- Title
- Ornamental band.
- Date
- 1584
- Medium
- Woodcut. Published as an ornament on the opening page of the Decreto del S. Concilio Provincial de Lima, itself published within the Doctrina Christiana[.] Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1584. Published also, in its second state, in the opening page of the Canto Primero of Diego D'Avalos y Figueroa (ca. 1550 – ca. 1608) Defensa de Damas[.] Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1603 (which we illustrate). As Rubem Amaral Jr. has noted (personal communication), in the second state of this woodblock, the left side of the crossbar of the T of the Petras monogram has been removed, thus creating a monogram consisting of the initials AR of Antonio Ricardo.
- Location
- Antigua Imprenta de Antonio Ricardo, Lima, Perú.
- Photo Source
- John Carter Brown Library / Internet Archive
- Correspondence Credit
- Almerindo Ojeda
- Note
- The monogram in the escutcheon of the device is a superposition of the letters P, T, R, A.
- Item
- 4605B
