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English: Print, Title page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Print, Title page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610
Description
English: 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.
Date 1610
date QS:P571,+1610-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1957-162-19
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
Notes
  • Type: Print
  • Inscribed: Engraved, in plate, lower left: Cum gratia privilege

Engraved, in plate, lower right: Sacra Caes: Majestatis Written in ink, lower right: 18

  • Country: Germany
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