Saint John on the Island of Patmos
Master E.S.
c. 1460
Medium
Engraving printed in black, on paper
Dimensions
Sheet trimmed within platemark: 20.6 × 14.1 cm (8 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
67303
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Master E.S. · 1450–1467
Master E.S. was a pioneering German engraver active in the middle decades of the fifteenth century, known only by the monogram with which he signed a number of his prints. His precise identity — name, birthplace, and biography — remains unknown, but his signed works, along with a larger group of prints attributed to him on stylistic grounds, place his activity primarily in the Upper Rhine region, ...