Endpaper with Animals
1824
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
1824
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Endpaper with Animals is a 1824 ink by Johann Maisch, a Romanticism work, depicting Tablecloth, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a thin sheet of light blue paper covered in tiny gold animals—deer, rabbits, birds, even a squirrel on a branch. This isn’t a painting or a print you’d hang on a wall. It’s an endpaper, the kind used inside the covers of old books to protect the pages. The gold makes the animals glow like they’re lit from behind, even though it’s just ink on paper. No one knows if Maisch made it for a book or just to show what he could do with a woodcut. Look up the technique: woodcut.
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