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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
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
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).
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)