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Mask with Two Snakes Looking Out from the Eye Sockets
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Mask with Two Snakes Looking Out from the Eye Sockets

Frans Huys · c. 1600 - c. 1650 · engraving; paper

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

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The mask has a shell on its head and fruit garlands on its ears. Sheet belongs to 11 partially numbered sheets from a series of 18 titled 'Ingenious Portraits of Several Ways of Masks...'. It concerns the second edition of a series described under Orn Cat I-78.1 to 11.

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Credit lineMasker met twee slangen die uit de oogkassen kijken. c. 1600 - c. 1650. Frans Huys. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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