
Plaquette van de Merkelsche Tafelaufsatz
1549 · etching on silver (metal)
diameter: 9 cm, height: 2.4 cm
Rijksmuseum

Wenzel Jamnitzer was a Northern Mannerist goldsmith, artist, and printmaker in etching, who worked in Nuremberg. He was the best known German goldsmith of his era, and court goldsmith to a succession of Holy Roman Emperors.
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