2. Heinrich Aldegrever
(1502-1555/61)

Dancing Couple

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Aldegrever, Dancing Couple

Dancing Couple

Engraving, 1538, 53 x 37 mm., Bartsch 148, Hollstein 148, from The Set of Small Wedding Dancers. Good impression on laid paper trimmed on the platemark, just into the image at the right; a light diagonal crease, thin spots. As opposed to Hans Beham's wedding dancers, Aldegrever's are clearly of the upper class, the male and female fashion-plates of their era.