Fireworks given by the Swedish ambassadors to honor Karl Gustav, Count Palatine, executed by Johann Carl, Nuremberg 1650
Anonymous
1650
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/4 × 15 7/16 in. (27.3 × 39.2 cm) Plate: 10 5/16 × 14 13/16 in. (26.2 × 37.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture|Prints-Fete
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.3609
Tags
Fireworks
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...