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Johann Schönsperger the Younger

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Johann Schӧnsperger the Younger, Zwickau. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 3 vertical columns. Left column is decorated with a curving white line. Middle column is decorated at the sides with composite human figures (man on left and woman on right) that have lower bodies in the form of an acanthus leaf. Right column is decorated with a pattern of horizontal hatch marks.

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