Ship with Sails Furled and Arrow Pointing to the Right
Master W with the Key
1475–1485
- Medium
- Engraving on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 17.1 × 12.3 cm (6 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
This still-unidentified early Netherlandish artist, who signed only with the letter W and the image of a key, is particularly known for his distinctive views of ships. Israhel van Meckenem and other printmakers copied many of his popular subjects. His images of monstrances and other ecclesiastical apparatus contained a level of detail similar to Martin Schongauer's Censer.
