Ornament with Arabesques
1526/30, printed 1684
Daniel Hopfer, I German, 1470-1536
Germany
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.
Etching in black on ivory laid paper