New Künstlichs Modelbuch

Bernhard Jobin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Bernhard Jobin, Strassburg (?). Illustrated title page, poem (2 pages), and 45 pages of designs. According to Lotz loc.cit. editions appeared in 1579, 1582, 1586, 1588, 1589, 1596, 1598, and 1600. See Lotz p. 80 for a discussion of the title cut. He says that it is in the style of Tobias Stimmer and not by Chrstoph Maureras described by Weigel in his Kunst Kat. 21926 (pt. 29, p. 63) and by Andresen-Peintre GraveurIII.p. 252. Note that the copper plate title on Sibmacher's first book is based on this. (L.32). 48 leaves, unnumbered (pencil numbering). SIgs: A - M 4 (last leaf blank). Sign. J 3 in facsimile. Although many of the patterns are taken from earlier books, i.e. Da Sera (L 69), Vavassore (L.67), Pagano (L. 87 & 98) and Guentel with Schonsperger patterns they are not slavish copies. Many are exact copies, however. In modern brown gingham cloth with linen spine.

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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