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Sigismundus Latomus

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Sigismundus Latomus, Frankfurt a.M. Illustrated and hand-colored title page, 94 pages of designs for lace and embroidery. Lotz cites two editions, the first appeared in 1606. The cuts are all copies of earlier ones, by Vecellio, SIbmacher, Ostaus, Schonsperger, etc. The only complete copy of the first edition cited by Lotz is in the Germanischen Museum, Nuremberg. It has 104 leaves, which this copy would have if complete, signed A - N 8, with 103 leaves of patterns. Leaves 27, 30, 65, 72, 73, 80, 90, 95 and 104 are missing. Patterns copies of Vecellio, Jobin, DaSera, Guentel. 95 leaves, numbered in ink, before the missing leaves were removed. Sigs: A - C 8, D 6 (D 3 & 6 are missing), E - H 8, (I-K 6 with I 1 & 8 and K 1 & 8 missing), L 8, M 6 (M 2 & 7 missing), N 1 (last leaf with blank verso missing). Repaired and rebound by Walter Moore, May 1955, in dark tan paper boards with linen spine.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.