• Hans Sebald Beham (engraver (printmaker))

Design for the capital and base of a Corinthian column

1543

• pattern drawing
• theoretical drawing
• dessin de détail

Engraving

plate mark: 8.7 x 7.0 cm sheet: 9.1 x 7.5 cm

DR1987:0346

• line drawing

• pictorial drawing

- There are hinges from previous mountings on the verso.

signed, dated, and inscribed - by the engraver, in the plate above the image, t.: ".VITRVVIVS. HSB" [monogram] / 3"; to the l. of the image, l.l. to u.l.: "CORINTHICA BASIS ET CAPITELLVM, EXTRA OMNEM / LINEAM, IMPONANTVR SVO CORPORI, / PROPORTIONE TALI" [written sideways]; to the r. of the image, u.r. to l.r.: "CORINTHER CAPITELL VND FVSS. AVSSER HALB / ALER LINGEN. SOL GESECZ WERDEN / AVFF IREN LEIB, MIT SOL- / CHER BROBORCZION" [written sideways]; and below the image, l.l.: "1543" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, c.r.: "P262" inscribed - by one or more unknown hands, in graphite, verso, l.l.: "F [illeg.] / Hubez / [illeg. letter] B. 253 / [illeg.]"

• architecture

• Corinthian order
• capital
• base
• architectural orders