Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609

Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609

Balthasar Küchler

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Loose plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien...' Written by Johann Ottinger with etchings by Balthasar Küchler, the book celebrates the magnificent wedding of Johann Friedrich, duke of Württemberg, and Barbara Sophie, margravine of Brandenburg, held in Stuttgart on November 6, 1609. For bound copy, see 39.6.2

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609Four women walking alongside four cows; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609

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.