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Illustrated by: Rudolf Wyssenbach (Swiss, active 1546–1560)
Copied after: Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
Illustrated by: Peter Flötner (German, about 1485–1546)
Printer: Jakob and Tobias Gessner (Swiss, active about 1561)
Copied after: Jacques Androuet Ducerceau (French, about 1515–about 1585)
Illustrated by: Peter Flötner (German, about 1485–1546)
Printer: Jakob and Tobias Gessner (Swiss, active about 1561)
1561
Place of Publication: Zurich, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 18 woodcuts
Dimensions
Overall: 38.1 x 25.3 x 2.4 cm (15 x 9 15/16 x 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number52.1743.3
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Zurich: Jakob and Tobias Gessner, 1561
Description(Zurich: Jakob and Tobias Gessner, 1561) Folio; 18 leaves; vellum over boards, tan cloth box. BOUND with Blum, Sülen, 1567 (52.1743.1) and Blum, Antiquiteten (52.1743.2)
Illustrations: two arabesque designs by Peter Flötner; elevations of architectural fantasies.
First[?] edition.The series of sixteen woodcut perspective views of churches, facades, triumphal arches, palaces, etc., is derived in part from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Two of them are initialled by Rudolf Wyssenbach as draftsman and his brother Johann as cutter. One is dated 1545, another 1558. Also included are two ornament woodcuts by Peter Flötner, one dated 1546.
BOUND with Blum, Sülen, 1567 (52.1743.1) and Blum, Antiquiteten, 1560 (52.1743.2)
Illustrations: two arabesque designs by Peter Flötner; elevations of architectural fantasies.
First[?] edition.The series of sixteen woodcut perspective views of churches, facades, triumphal arches, palaces, etc., is derived in part from Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. Two of them are initialled by Rudolf Wyssenbach as draftsman and his brother Johann as cutter. One is dated 1545, another 1558. Also included are two ornament woodcuts by Peter Flötner, one dated 1546.
BOUND with Blum, Sülen, 1567 (52.1743.1) and Blum, Antiquiteten, 1560 (52.1743.2)
ProvenanceWilliam H. Schab, New York, from whom purchased by MFA, December 11, 1952.