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Schönes Grotteszken Büchlein

Print
1625 (Printed)
Artist/Maker
Paul Fürst (Designer)
Peter Isselburg (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Bamberg (Printed)

Title plate.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
TitleSchönes Grotteszken Büchlein (series title)
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Peter Isselburg after Paulus Fürst. Plate from a suite of 17, including title plate, of grotesque designs for goldsmith’s work entitled ‘Schönes Grotteszken Büchlein’. Germany, 1625.
Physical description
Title plate.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 11.0cm
  • Cut to width: 14.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
Lettered in the centre of the plate: 'Schönes / Grotteszken Büchlein / .... / Gedrucht zu Bamberg beij / Peter Iselburg / .1625.'
Bibliographic references
  • Fuhring, P. Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: The Seventeenth Century, 3 vols, Rotterdam, 2004, vol. 1, no. 525.
  • Falk, Tilman (Ed.)., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. XV A, Lambert Hopfer to Sebastian Jenet, pp.125-206.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Accessions: 1908, London: Printed For His Majesty's Stationery Office, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1909
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2067-1908

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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