Morris Dancers

Daniel Hopfer German
 After Anonymous, Italian, 15th to 16th century Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 690

The figures in this print, traditionally identified as Morris dancers (a term that generally refers to a folk tradition of English origin), perform a caricature of a courtship dance. Men wearing grotesque maks and dressed as fools encirle a lone female figure--not a beautiful young woman but an old sausage vendor.

Morris Dancers, Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536 Augsburg), Etching; fourth state of four

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