Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 23 (recto)
Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century
Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century.
From top to bottom, and left to right:
Page contains 2 designs, each cut from a different source and pasted onto this page. Top design is narrow and is decorated with a curving vine with 2 flowers. Bottom design is in the shape of a square and is decorated with coiling vines with leaves and flowers, and a composite bird and deer creature at the bottom left corner.
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955
1615-35
Pen and ink; some with wash
18.9 x 11.4in
55.583.1(18)
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019