Thistle Ornament With Wild Man
Master E.S.
1450/67
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
Sheet trimmed within platemark: 9.8 × 6.9 cm (3 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82189
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, ...