New Modelbüch (Page 8r)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 12 x 8 1/16 in. (30.5 x 20.5 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936
Accession Number
36.19(8r)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the intricate world of 17th-century design with *New Modelbüch (Page 8r)*, a woodcut from 1615 created by Henning Gross the Younger Andreas Bretschneider.oused in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department (quired via the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund in1936), this modest 12 x 8 1/16-inch sheet exemplifies the Northern European of pattern books, or *Modelbücher*. These practical volumes served as essential toolkits for artisans, offering repeatable motifs for crafts like embroidery, lace-making, metalwork, and architecture. Printed via woodcut—a durable technique id...
About the Artist
Henning Gross the younger|Andreas Bretschneider (German|German) · 1573 | –1645 |
German, Dresden ca. 1578–ca. 1640 Leipzig|