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Willem Vosterman

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Printed by Willem Vosterman. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 6 horizontal registers. First register is decorated with a pattern of diamonds that contain a knot work motif in the center. Second register is decorated with an alternating pattern of a diamonds superimposed by 'X's and an 'S' motif. Third register is decorated with 2 overlapping lines that form a pattern of small diamonds in the center. Fourth register is decorated with a central zigzagging line that has a diamond at each point. Fifth register is decorated with an alternating pattern of different 'X' motifs. Sixth register is decorated with different geometric motifs and birds.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art