Description
Tonsor Der Scherer – Le Barbier
Gravure sur bois
de Jost AMMAN (Zurich 1539 – Nuremberg 1591)
Publié par Sigmund Feierabend
1568
Description par British Museum :
One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing an interior of a barber’s shop, in the background one man’s hair being washed, in the left foreground another man’s hair being cut, in the right foreground a towel on a heater (?); from Hartmann Schopper, ‘Panoplia [Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium …’, (Frankfurt, Sigmund Feierabend, 1568), quire M7 with Latin and German title and Latin verses by Schopper in one column.
Woodcut and letterpress
New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (51.96)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (IX.371.8.96)
Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900 (357)
Willshire 1879-1883 / A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British Museum. German and Flemish Schools (German 163)
Épreuve : 125 x 67 mm
