Arabesque Design on Dark Ground

1534–1562

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 2 13/16 × 4 3/8 in. (7.2 × 11.1 cm)
Collection no.: 33.70.39
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Virgil Solis. Arabesque Design on Dark Ground. Virgil Solis; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933. 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

Arabesque Design on Dark Ground — Virgil Solis. 1534–1562.

Medium: Etching and engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 2 13/16 × 4 3/8 in. (7.2 × 11.1 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933.

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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