Print Description
Medium: Woodcut on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 9 x 14 cm (3.54 x 5.51 inch). Image size: 6 x 8 cm. (2.36 x 3.15 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Clean sheet, minimal age toning, wide margins; crisp impression. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
JOST AMMAN, RENAISSANCE WOODCUT, 16TH-CENTURY PRINT, JEWISH FIGURE, MONEYLENDER, TYPOLOGY, NUREMBERG, BOOK ILLUSTRATION, LATIN TEXT, EARLY MODERN | PCO-A21-13
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a 1582 latin version of Jost Amman’s and Hans Sachs’ “Standebuch” (1568-) published by Sigismund Feierabend, Frankfurt or Nuremberg.
Reference: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger: Gut vor Ehre oder Ehre vor Gut? Zur sozialen Distinktion zwischen Adels- und Kaufmannsstand in der Standeliteratur der Fruhen Neuzeit. In: Augsburger Handelshauser im Wandel des historischen Urteils. Berlin 1996, S. 31-45;
Norbert H. Ott: Standeliteratur. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munchen 1997, Tl. 8, Sp. 54-55;
Ursula Schulze: Jost Amman. Standebuch. Koln 2006, S. 241-249;
Hans Sachs, Jost Amman: Das Standebuch. Hrsg. von Hans Blosen, Per?rentzen und Harald Pors. 2 Bande. Aarhus 2009;
Kersten Kruger: Die Landstandische Verfassung. Munchen 2010.
Biography engraver: Jost Amman (1539-1591) was a prolific Swiss-German illustrator and printmaker active in Nuremberg. He produced over 1,500 woodcuts, primarily for books, and was renowned for detailed representations of costumes, trades, and typologies.
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