Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens

Christian Egenolff

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Christian Egenolff, German, 1502-1555, Frankfort am Mayn. Illustrated title page, 26 pages of designs including 4 pages of animals and fish at the end. According to Lotz loc.cit. this book is made up of three Egenolff books. The title leaves 5 - 7 (sig. B i-iii) and the last two leaves belong together. Most of the patterns in sigs. a and c he thinks are from a still unknown edition of Egenolff's "Modelbuch welscher, ober.un niderlandicher Arbait", Lotz 15. One leaf is from Egenolff's later book (Lotz 20). MMA has photostat copy of undated second edition which must be after 1555, the year Egenolff died, since it is published by his heirs (Dick 934). Apparently unique. The title border is discussed in Lotz loc.cit. Biii outside border cut. see pl. 62 - fac. of Lotz 8 sig. in fac. on new marque. 14 leaves, unnumbered. Sigs: a - c 4, (d)2, (verso of title, blank). See notes in book tipped in at back.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

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