Plate 26, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
date: label: Date
content: 1610
name: label: Designer
content: Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ornamental cartouche composed of paired elephant heads, seen in profile, alternately. Their trunks terminate in animal forms. Above, three children support an umbrella from which smoke issues.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-162-26
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 14.6 × 18.7 cm (5 3/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 18.5 × 23 cm (7 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.)