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Daniel Hopfer, I

Ornament with Arabesques

1526/30, printed 1684
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
25.8 × 18.9 cm (10.2 × 7.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

This playfully grotesque ornament represents a candalabra-like concoction that is reflected on a vertical axis, with slight differences in the fantastic creatures on either side. The “64” scratched into the plate at lower left marks this impression as a later one, published in a compiled edition of Hopfer’s prints in 1684.

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