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Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene
This is a Print. It was engraved by Pieter van der Heyden and after Jacob Floris the Elder. It is dated 1566 and we acquired it in 1944. Its medium is engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Van der Heyden collaborated with influential Antwerp publisher Cock to reproduce the work of Flemish artists such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymus Bosch for a rapidly expanding print market. Designs like these for decorative metalwork constituted a smaller part of their business, but they feature similar allegorical idioms and fantastic creatures. Grinning men and mythic beasts cavort within stylized strapwork frames. Ornamental strapwork, inspired by decorative bands of leather, was a common grotesque motif throughout Europe, but the forceful clarity of van der Heyden’s architectonic designs is distinctly Flemish.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
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- engraving on laid paper.
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
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- Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene
- engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1944-83-7-1
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Its dimensions are
13.8 × 10.3 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Cite this object as
Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene; Engraved by Pieter van der Heyden; After Jacob Floris the Elder (Flemish, 1524 - 1581); Netherlands; engraving on laid paper; 13.8 × 10.3 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane; 1944-83-7-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.
