print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1904,0206.103.1
- Title
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Object: [The Philosopher]
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Series: Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum ... (Book of Trades)
- Description
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One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing an elderly Greek man, seated next to ruins of a column, in his left hand holding a closed book; from Hartmann Schopper, 'Panoplia [Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium ...', (Frankfurt, Sigmund Feierabend, 1568), quire A[*]7v, with Greek title and verses in one column.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1568
- Dimensions
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Height: 148 millimetres
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Height: 78 millimetres
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Width: 90 millimetres (sheet size)
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Width: 61 millimetres (woodcut)
- Curator's comments
- The book contains a series of 133 woodcuts, depicting different trades and occupations, all by Jost Amman, each accompanied by Latin verses by Hartmann Schopper (see 1904-2-6-103.1-133).
It is the classic source of illustrations of the craftsmen of pre-industrial Europe.
This is the Latin edition; there was a German edition in the same year with virtually the same plates and verses by Hans Sachs under the title 'Beschreibung aller Stände auff Erden' (New Hollstein 50). A copy of the German edition is in the British Library.
The book is dedicated to Oswald von Eck and Wolfeck, by the publisher Feyerabend.
The pages are not numbered, and can only be referred to by their signatures (the quires are gathered in eights) from A to R (1-8), or by their numbers in the New Hollstein catalogue.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0206.103.1