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The lines on the plate are filled with ink which is then printed onto paper. This is the title page to a set of five prints representing the Five Senses - Smell, Taste, Hearing, Touch and Sight. The title translates as 'Description of the five senses in that kind of painting that the Italians call grotesques'. Grotesque refers to a type of decoration based on Roman wall and ceiling paintings that were discovered in the 1480s in the buried ruins of Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea (Golden House) in Rome. Because such paintings were found underground in grottoes they were known as grotesques. In this print animals associated with all the senses appear entwined amongst the scrollwork, fruit and flowers surrounding the title. Each of these animals appears again in one of the accompanying prints under the appropriate sense.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Francis Cleyn etched these prints for the publisher Thomas Rowlett. Thomas Rowlett was one of the leading print publishers in London between 1645 and 1649.<br><br><b>Ownership & Use</b><br>These prints served a dual function. Collectors bought them as prints to be collected in their own right, while craftsmen bought them as sources for the decoration of objects they were making.","physicalDescription":"1 of six etchings showing the five senses (and a frontispiece)","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Clein, Francis","id":"A1338"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Clein, Francis","id":"A1338"},"association":{"text":"etcher","id":"AAT25174"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Rowlett, Thomas","id":"A8808"},"association":{"text":"publisher","id":"x32600"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching, ink on paper","categories":[{"text":"Allegory","id":"THES250534"},{"text":"Ornament prints","id":"THES49038"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AN2366"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56D","id":"THES49242"},"free":"","case":"CA17","shelf":"","box":"14"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1646","earliest":"1646-01-01","latest":"1646-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"8.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"print","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"19.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"print","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 07/01/1999 by sp/nh\n\nmounted together with 5 others (709, 10, 11, 12 & 713-1927) on board 54 x37.5cm","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Signed 'F. 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