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Ornament with acanthus scrolls inhabited by a snake and an insect

HECKENAUER, Leonhard (Augsburg, 1655 - Munich, 1704).
Ornament with acanthus scrolls inhabited by a snake and an insect. Plate 2 from Romanisches Laubwerk Erster Theil series (12 plates).
Etching, c. 1680-1704
163x104 mm.
Numbered "2." in lower right corner.

 

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Bibliography:
Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 74(1)
Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II : the seventeenth century