1/5

About this artwork

plaatrand: hoogte 192 mm x breedte 133 mm

Art Historical Context

**Pieter Schenk (I): 1/5** This delicate print, titled *1/5*, comes from the workshop of Pieter Schenk (), a leading Dutch engraver and publisher active between 1670 and 1713. Born around 1660 in Amsterdam Schenk was a master of reproductive printmaking during the waning years of the Dutch Golden Age when intricate engravings on paper captured the era's fascination with detailed imagery, maps, and decorative series. As the first in a set of five plates—hinted by its numbering—this work exemplifies the commercial print culture booming in 17th-century Holland, where affordable paper prints brou...