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Print

pre-1724 (designed), pre-1748 (engraved), pre-1748 (published)
Artist/Maker
Johann Jakob Schubler (designed by)
Georg Lichtensteger (engraved)
Johann Balthasar Probst (published by)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (designed)
Nuremberg (engraved)
Augsburg (published)

Johann Jakob Schübler. Plate 3 of 6 from a set of confessional designs that is part of a series of 24 sets of various designs. Augsburg, before 1748.


Object details

Category
Ornament Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Engraving
Brief description
Johann Jakob Schübler. Plate 3 of 6 from a set of confessional designs that is part of a series of 24 sets of various designs. Augsburg, before 1748.
Dimensions
  • To plate mark length: 29.4cm
  • To plate mark width: 17.9cm
Content description
Depicts a priest seated in a confessional, with one figure confessing, and two praying.
Marks and inscriptions
Ioh. Iacob Schübler inv. et del. 3. Perspectivisches Dessein eines recht zierlichen und zum Gebrauch bequem eingerichteten Beicht-Stuhles, welcher durch eine dreyfache ausgeschaalte Hohlheit die inwendige Beschaffenheit erlanget, und der gantze zusammenhang dieser proportionirten Theile, eine solche Invention aus machet, welche sich von den ordentlichen Vorstellungen von selbsten distinguiren wird. Cum Pr. Sac. Cæs. Maj. Hæred. Ier. Wolffij excud. A.V.
Translation
Perspectival drawing of a quite delicate and comfortably furnished confessional, which achieves its inherent quality through a thrice stripped hollow, and the complete coherence of these proportionate parts, making an invention that will distinguish itself from ordinary concepts of the same.
Object history
The V&A holds this suite as published by Johann Balthasar Probst. It was originally published by Jeremias Wolff, before 1724.
Bibliographic reference
Berlin Staatlich Museen., Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 98. Nagler, G K, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, 22 vols, Munich, 1835, vol. XII, pp. 80-81. Nagler, G K, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, 22 vols, Munich, 1835, vol. VII, p.506.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.4004-1907

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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