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Design for a Large Goblet
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Design for a Large Goblet

ca. 1570–80

Medium

Pen and black ink, washes in several gray tones

Dimensions

Sheet: 30 3/8 x 13 9/16 in. (77.2 x 34.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Jost Amman

1539–1591SwitzerlandGermany

Swiss engraver, painter. Born in Zurich, he spent most of his career in Nuremberg, where he worked with Virgil Solis, chief illustrator for the Frankfurt publisher Sigmund Feyerabend. He was the youngest son of a noted scholar and Chorherr in Zurich, Johann Jakob Amman, a friend of Ulrich Zwingli and Konrad Gessner. Jost, like his brother Josua (1531-1564), who became a goldsmith, did not take up a scholarly career. Known for his book about Renaissance woodcuts for artists and Illustrators, known as the "Kunstbüchlein," and other works. Comment on works: portraits; master draftsman, etcher, carver