Anonymous

Ornament designs

Netherlands?, 17^th century.

Drawing in pencil and black & brown wash. Folio (43 x 27 cm.), cut in two sheets (21 x 27; 22 x 27 cm.), 17^th century paper without watermark.

Large design drawing for two ornamental rosettes. The paint and ink stains and the way the sheet was rudimentary cut in half signifies that the designs were used by an artist.

Condition: Grimed and stained, small pinholes in the centre of the rosettes where the device for making the circles was inserted. Repaired tear through the centre of one sheet.