Design for Armor Decoration

ca. 1515

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; second state of two
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 5 5/16 in. (8.5 × 13.5 cm)
Collection no.: 18.55.1
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Daniel Hopfer. Design for Armor Decoration. Daniel Hopfer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1918. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Design for Armor Decoration — Daniel Hopfer. ca. 1515.

Medium: Etching; second state of two. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/8 × 5 5/16 in. (8.5 × 13.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1918.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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