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Neu-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen

Print
1680-1698 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel (Designer)
Wolfgang Hieronymus Von Bömmel (Printmaker)
Leonhard Loschge (Publisher)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (Published)

Plate 4 of a set of designs for gold ornaments, depicting two bulls locking horns, watched by a man smoking a pipe. The man and bulls are all composed of scrolling foliage.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Designs
Metalwork
Object type
Print
TitleNeu-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen (Suite title)
Materials and techniques
engraving
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
Engraving of farmer and bulls, 1 of 5 plates from the suite of 6 entitled 'Neu-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen', Wolfgang Hieronymous von Bömmel, Germany, before 1698
Physical description
Plate 4 of a set of designs for gold ornaments, depicting two bulls locking horns, watched by a man smoking a pipe. The man and bulls are all composed of scrolling foliage.
DimensionsFrom a set described as 'various sizes' in Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Object history
The first edition of Wolfgang Hieronymous von Bömmel's 'Neu-ersonnene Gold-Schmieds Grillen' ('New Designs for Ornaments in Gold'). The suite was reissued by Johann Christoph Weigel in the eighteenth century.
Subjects depicted
Bulls
Men
Pipe
Farmer
Scrolling Foliage
Leaf Scrolls
Acanthus
Bibliographic references
  • Edition published by Johann Christoph Weigel Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 696.
  • Hollstein, F.W.H., German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts c.1400-1700, Amsterdam, 1954, vol. IV, p. 136, 1-9.
  • Fuhring, P., Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, 1611.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2676-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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