Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 9v)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 7 5/16 x 5 5/16 in. (18.5 x 13.5 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.69(9v)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of Renaissance craftsmanship with *Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vnens* (Page 9v), a woodcut print from 1535 by Egenolff, a pioneering Frankfurt printer. This page hails from a "pattern book" designed for embroiderers and needleworkers, offering motifs for stitching and ornamentation. Measuring just 7 5/16 x 5 5/16 inches, it's a compact treasure from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Drawings and Prints collection, through the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1933. Woodcuts like this were revolutionary in the 16th century, enabling affordable reproduction of detailed designs...
About the Artist
Christian Egenolff · 1502–1555
Christian Egenolff (1502–1555) was one of the most important and influential printers of sixteenth-century Germany, a figure whose significance extends from the history of the book to the visual arts of the early modern period. Born in Hadamar, he learned the printing trade before establishing himself in Frankfurt am Main, where he would build a publishing house of lasting consequence. Egenolff w...