Object Details
- Designer
- Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Within an eleborate frame resembling a domed building with columns is the suite title and a vine line inscription (in German script) with the date. At the side, fantastic beasts sit on the capitals, and drop fishing lines into basins held on the backs of fauns, below.
- Translation of title: "New Grotesque Book, invented graded and published by Christopher Jamnitzer, citizen and goldsmith in Nuremberg. Very old antique temple full of brand new strange oddities in the service of all who love art, now driiven here [to this book] for something new, hoping that this should be fruitful, and whomever does not like it should pass it up.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
- 1610
- Accession Number
- 1957-162-19
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ornament
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 15.1 × 19 cm (5 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
- 18.5 × 22.9 cm (7 5/16 in. × 9 in.)
- made in
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1957-162-19
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49711b1da-9e8f-4947-b6b1-8601178c33e6
