print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1999,0627.39
- Title
- Object: Kurtze Beschreibung der wunderbarlichen Art unnd Eigenschafften...
- Description
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German broadside with engraving showing riotous assembly in a spinning room, with figures brandishing distaffs, drinking and engaging in sexual activities; copy of c.1650 after Barthel Beham
- Production date
- 1650 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Harms, IV, 16; and Harms I, 86 for related broadsheet, and other versions of this very popular subject. Fürst also published the same print with a more elaborate border, see inv. 1880,0710.910 (placed with German Broadsides, 1650).
For prints published by Paulus Fürst, see T. Hämpe, 'Paulus Fürst und sein Kunstverlag', Mitt. aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Jahrg. 1914/15, pp.3-127 and 1919, pp. 137-170 (no.279).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2000 May-July, Brighton Mus. & Art Gallery, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 July-Sept, Nottingham Castle Museum, 'Carnivalesque'
2000 Oct-Dec, Edinburgh, City Art Centre, 'Carnivalesque'
- Acquisition date
- 1999
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1999,0627.39
