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Designs for cabinet fronts

Hans Jacob Ebelmann (about 1600)
1598
Place of Publication: Cologne, Germany

Medium/Technique Set of six etchings
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 21.5 x 5.3 cm (12 5/8 x 8 7/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number50.6.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Cologne[?]: the artist, 1598

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin 1168; Hollstein, German, VIII, p. 8, no. 1
Description(Cologne[?]: the artist, 1598. Folio; six leaves; original gilt-stamped armorial green vellum binding (green cloth box). BOUND with: 50.6.1-4 and .6-.15 (Hoffmann album)

Illustrations of designs for elaborately decorated cabinet fronts. The six plates are numbered and initialled; the first and sixth are dated. The MFA also owns Ebelmann and Guckeisen's Schweyf Buch of 1599 (46.787).
ProvenanceFerdinand Hoffmann von Grünpichl-Strechau (b. 1540 -d. 1607), Prague; given by Ferdinand Hoffmann to his wife, Margaretha von Harrach; by descent through the Counts Harrach to the Hradec Library, Czech Republic. 1950, sold by William H. Schab, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 12, 1950)