print; book; book-illustration

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print; book; book-illustration

Object Type: print; book; book-illustration
Museum number: 1904,0206.103.100
Title: Object: Membranarius. Der Bermenter. (The Parchment Maker); Series: Panoplia omnium illiberalium mechanicarum ... (Book of Trades)
Description: One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing the open workshop of a parchment maker who is holding a round knife (?) and working at a hide stretched in a wooden frame, on the left two further hides in frames; from Hartmann Schopper, 'Panoplia [Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium ...', (Frankfurt, Sigmund Feierabend, 1568), quire N4, with Latin and German title and Latin verses by Schopper in one column. Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Jost Amman; Published by: Sigmund Feierabend
School/style: German
Production date: 1568
Production place: Published in: Frankfurt am Main
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 148 millimetres; Height: 79 millimetres; Width: 90 millimetres (sheet size); Width: 61 millimetres (woodcut)
Curator's comments: The book contains a large series depicting different trades and occupations. For further information, see entry for BM 1904-2-6-103.1.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (51.101) (Jost Amman); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (IX.371.8.101); Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900 (357) (whole book); Willshire 1879-1883 / A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish Schools (German 163)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: trade/occupation
Associated names: Illustration to: Hartmann Schopper
Acquisition name: Donated by: William Mitchell
Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1904,0206.103.100

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