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Blackwork Print with Two Vertical Panels and Four Bezels

Blackwork print with six motifs. In the center two vertical panels are depicted, decorated with Schweifwerk and grotesques. The panels are flanked on both sides by two ring bezels which have decorated with different Schweifwerk patterns. The print is a copy in reverse after Hertzog von Brin.

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956

c. 1620
Blackwork
4.0 x 5.1cm
56.500.117
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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