Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Lithograph - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1888
- Publisher: Dolmetsch / Verlag von J. Hoffmann, Stuttgart.
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 9 x 13.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image. 1 inch = 2,54 cm.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
Legend to the illustrations in the print:
- Our entire plate is devoted to one special branch of metal-work
embracing such numerous objects, viz. productions of the
armourers. Many weapons and armors, the surfaces of which are,
with marvelous ingenuity and endless variety, decorated with
scroll-work, frame-work and strap work, were for this reason for a long
time believed to be works of the greatest Italian masters, who were
thought to have made them chiefly at the French court. Some years
ago, however, the surprising discovery was made, that the
most and very finest of these objects were of German origin, German
masters, above all, having been called by Francis I. and Henry II. for
that purpose to France. Part of these harnesses, shields, helms etc.
are most splendidly decorated with complete figural representations,
others with single figures, animals, birds, mythical beings as well as
with flowers and scroll- work; later on, however, the scrolls and
involuted bands, likewise the cartouches predominated, as they did in
Italian and French Renaissance, taking the place of that finer
vegetable ornament of the former time. The metal-plates were either
etched, chased or damascened, more frequently however the designs were
raised by embossment.
Figs. 1-6. Representations of armor from the "Kabinet der Handzeichnungen alter Meister at Munich, 16TH Century
Notes:
- Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
- The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print.
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