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Flat decoration with grotesques
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Flat decoration with grotesques

Heinrich Aldegrever · 1550 · engraving; paper

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

About this work

Flat decoration with a bat in the center, with a snail and an insect on its wings. Below it, a trophy of arms in a shell. From the shell also emerge two leafy tendrils, extending into a male and female satyr, each carrying a winged herm on their heads.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
printornamentprentornaments ~ art
Credit lineVlakdecoratie met grotesken. 1550. Heinrich Aldegrever. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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