
Dagger Sheath with a Young Couple Above
<p>The Westphalian painter and printmaker Heinrich Aldegrever styled his nested AG monogram after the famed Albrecht Dürer, and often adopted the compact scale of the Little Masters of Nuremberg. Aldegrever produced some 100 of his 300 prints in similarly elaborate detail. His <em>Dagger Sheath</em> is one of the rarest and most classicizing Renaissance ornament prints, with its acanthus-leaf foliage and comparatively large figures. The specific dagger shape implies the print’s intended use as a pattern to decorate a leather cover for a blade.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1532
- Dimensions
- Image/plate/sheet: 15.8 × 3.4 cm (6 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Heinrich Aldegrever
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Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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- Heinrich Aldegrever
- Year
- 1532
- Dimensions
- Image/plate/sheet: 15.8 × 3.4 cm (6 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1532-112852
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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