Spotvers bij het portret van Nicolaas de Vooght
Summary
Spotprent van Nicolaas de Vooght, rechter van Van Oldenbarnevelt. Koe met laurierkrans in krans van bloemen en bladeren. Daaronder cartouche met aan weerszijden twee figuren en daaronder een koeienkop. In cartouche naam en daarboven nr. 2. Behorende bij serie aquarellen in boek.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.