View of Nuremberg from the West
1552
Medium
Etching on three copper plates with engraved text
Dimensions
Sheet (left): 12 1/16 × 19 5/16 in. (30.7 × 49 cm) Sheet (center): 12 3/16 in. × 21 in. (31 × 53.4 cm) Sheet (right): 12 3/16 × 19 7/16 in. (31 × 49.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.67.6, 7, 8
Tags
About the Artist
Hanns Lautensack
Hanns Lautensack, born in 1524 in Bamberg, Germany, was the son of Paul Lautensack, a noted painter and organist. Alongside his brother Heinrich, a goldsmith, the family relocated to Nuremberg in 1527, where Hanns immersed himself in the vibrant artistic milieu of the city. There, he likely apprenticed with a goldsmith, honing skills in fine metalwork that informed his precise etching technique, t...