Horizontal Panel with a Bird, from Varii Generis Opera Aurifabris Necessaria

Paul Birckenhultz German

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Ornamental frieze with a bird with out-stretched wings at center, surrounded by foliate scrolls. The bird is upright and its head faces left. From a series of six plates with horizontally hatched backgrounds. According to Berliner, the backgrounds of the plates in this series were further darkened at a later date.

Horizontal Panel with a Bird, from Varii Generis Opera Aurifabris Necessaria, Paul Birckenhultz (1561–1639), Engraving; first of two states (SKB)

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