Blackwork Print with a Symmetric Grotesque Pattern
Claes Jansz. Visscher
ca. 1620 · blackwork · Drawings and Prints
Blackwork print with an all-over grotesque pattern. The design is characterized by the figure of a winged soldier or cuirasse on top of an arch. The grotesque is filled with fruit. flowers, insects and birds.
- Artist
- Claes Jansz. Visscher
- Date
- ca. 1620
- Medium
- blackwork
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956