Quatrefoil Design in Blackwork, from Varii Generis Opera Aurifabris Necessaria

Paul Birckenhultz

ca. 1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Ornamental design in quatrefoil at center, with eight-pointed floral shape in the middle, flanked by a bird at left and at right with an insect at upper left of quatrefoil. In the black background, grotesques with putti heads at lower left and right, and dragons at upper left and right. From a series of six plates of ornamental designs.

Artist

Paul Birckenhultz

Date

ca. 1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930