Plate 92: Orpheus cythara ludens (Orpheus Playing the Lyre)

Johann Wilhelm Baur

1607–1642

Plate 92: Orpheus cythara ludens (Orpheus Playing the Lyre), 1639–1641

Where object was made: Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Austria)

Material/technique: laid paper; etching

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 135 x 210 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 5 5/16 x 8 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 0000.1706.093

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Exhibition Label: "Cabinets of Curiosity: Musing About Collections," Jun-2006, Joseph Keehn and Madeline Rislow Prior to the nineteenth century, prints were usually collected in albums which were often organized thematically. Very few of these early collections are still housed in albums, largely because in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries libraries, museums, dealers and collectors detached prints from their earlier housings thinking they could be better cared for or more readily sold as loose sheets. With this, a great deal of information about how prints were organized and used in the eighteenth century was lost. The Spencer Museum still has the remnants of the discarded albums that once housed two of its print series, Raimondi’s engraved copies after Dürer’s woodcut series of the Life of the Virgin, and Baur’s illustrations to Ovid's Metamorphoses. Most museums, including the Spencer, conserve prints and drawings in so-called “Solander Boxes, “boxes designed by the botanist Daniel Solander (1733-1782).