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Willem Vosterman

after 1527 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Printed by Willem Vosterman. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 5 horizontal registers. First register is decorated with zigzagging lines that have an acorn at each point. Second register is decorated with an alternating pattern of right side-up and upside-down acorns. Third register is decorated with an alternating pattern of a floral motif and birds. Fourth register is divided into 2 sections: left has a black background and right has a white background; this register is decorated with a zigzagging line that has a trefoil motif at each point. Fifth register is divided into 2 sections: left has a black background and is decorated with a linear patter and right has a white background and is decorated in the center with squares that are connected to a linear pattern at the sides.

Artist

Willem Vosterman

Date

after 1527

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953