Design for Two Spoons and a Dog Whistle
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/16 × 4 in. (7.8 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.10.1
About this artwork
Heinrich Aldegrever's "Design for Two Spoons and a Dog Whistle" (1539) The work, executed in engraving, measures sheet: 3 1/16 × 4 in. and Prints served crucial roles in disseminating artistic ideas and images across geographic and social boundaries. This work provides valuable insights into Heinrich Aldegrever's artistic practice and the broader cultural and material contexts of its creation.
About the Artist
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1502–1561
Heinrich Aldegrever, born in 1502 in Paderborn, Westphalia, to parents Herman and Katherine Trippenmeker—a family of clog-makers known by the dialect name Trippenmecker—emerged as a multifaceted artist in the German Renaissance. His early training remains undocumented, though he likely apprenticed in a Soest goldsmith's workshop after relocating there around 1525, where he joined the painters' gui...