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Peter Quentel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published by Peter Guentel, Cologne, woodcut border designed by Anton Woensam von Worms, German, active first half 16th century, died 1538. Italian translation of title page, illustrated title page, portrait of Charles V, 46 pages of designs including pages of the alphabet. The fifth edition of Quentel's first pattern book, all the four preceding edition having been published in 1527, one with this title in French. The patterns are close copies fo Schonsperger's second book except for the borders on sig. aii, aiii, and a iv. See notes in book for identification of the cuts. 24 leaves, unnumbered. Lotz says "there can hardly be any doubt that the patterns are drawn and possibly cut by Anton von Worms", see p. 43 Lotz.

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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