- Museum number
- 1863,0725.1527-1544
- Title
- Object: [Ein fremdes und wunderbares Kunstbüchlein...]
- Description
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A set of eighteen leaves of woodcuts by Vogtherr from an incomplete pattern book (first published in 1538), showing various headdresses, pieces of armour, weapons, heraldic shields, architecture as well as different positions of hands and feet; bound in one volume together with a preface in letterpress, the title-page missing and replaced with an early manuscript transcription in ink. 1540
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1540 ((first published 1538))
- Dimensions
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Height: 167 millimetres (page, average)
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Width: 128 millimetres (page, average)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- With engraved bookplate of Aloys Baron de Freysing, Bishop of Regensburg on the inside cover.
For a sheet from an unidentified early edition of Vogtherr's 'Kunstbüchlein', corresponding to fols Ev and Fr of this edition, see BM 1897,1231.3. The book was first published in 1538 with thirty leaves; the woodcuts are printed recto and verso. This is an incomplete copy, containing eighteen leaves and a preface from the third edition of 1540. The involvement of Vogtherr the Younger is indicated by a portrait, together with his father, which appears on the title-page of the first edition. Röttinger attributed the designs for parts of the human body and heraldic shields to the elder Vogtherr, and the designs for armour and weapons and some of the decorative objects to the younger Vogtherr. See Bartrum, 1995, no. 159, for further details.
The following leaves are missing: A1 (title), B2-4, C3, D3, E2, G2-4, H1, H2.
Ref:
Frank Muller, 'Heinrich Vogtherr l'Ancien', Wiesbaden 1997, cat. 231.
Jutta Funke, Beiträge zum graphischen Werk Heinrich Vogtherrs des Älteren, Berlin, 1967, p.105.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1995 Jun-Oct, BM, 'German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550', no.159
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Kunstbüchlein (Strasbourg 1538)
- Acquisition date
- 1863
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1863,0725.1527-1544
