Headpiece with seahorses in 'Art and Society'

Seahorses are loosely symmetrically placed within a frame. The artist leaves no part of the paper untouched. He used water plants to fill the rest of the surface. At this time it was believed that animal and plant forms were the basis of aesthetically justified decoration. Therefore Dijsselhof (like Jessurun de Mesquita and later Escher) also took his students to the Amsterdam zoo (Artis).