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Headpiece with frogs in 'Art and Society'
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Headpiece with frogs in 'Art and Society'

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof · 1893 · houtsnede; Japanese paper (handmade paper)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

These frogs are shown multiple times mirrored. Twice they form the letter 'x'. Dijsselhof filled the remaining space with frogspawn. Escher would have felt challenged to use similar forms for this. One could speak here of 'irregular plane filling'.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineKopvignet met kikvorsen in 'Kunst en samenleving'. 1893. Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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