Title page, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book)
date: label: Date
content: 1610
name: label: Designer
content: Christoph Jamnitzer, German, 1563 - 1618
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Within an eleborate frame resembling a domed building with columns is the suite title and a vine line inscription (in German script) with the date. At the side, fantastic beasts sit on the capitals, and drop fishing lines into basins held on the backs of fauns, below.
label: Description
content: Translation of title: "New Grotesque Book, invented graded and published by Christopher Jamnitzer, citizen and goldsmith in Nuremberg. Very old antique temple full of brand new strange oddities in the service of all who love art, now driiven here [to this book] for something new, hoping that this should be fruitful, and whomever does not like it should pass it up.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-162-19
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 15.1 × 19 cm (5 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: 18.5 × 22.9 cm (7 5/16 in. × 9 in.)