Jost Amman (aka Jost Ammon)
(1539–1591)
“The Fowler” (aka “Auceps. Der Vogler”), 1568,
from the series of 133 woodcut illustrations to Hartmann Schopper’s (1542–c1595)
“Panoplia Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium ...” (aka “Book
of Trades”), published by Sigmund
Feierabend (aka Sigmund Feyerabend; Sigismund Feyrabend) (1528–1590) in
1568 in Frankfurt am Main.
Jane S
Peters ([ed]. TIB 20, Part 2 [1985]) offers the following translation of the lengthy
title of the publication in which this woodcut features: “A Panoply of all
practical, mechanical or sedentary trades which were ever devised by the
ancients or by various men of our time, briefly and clearly set forth. This
constitutes the first book of poems which is then made useful and pleasurable
to read through a marvelously varied supply of newly invented topics and terms.
Also included are the most elegant illustrations providing the reader with a
vivid picture of the activity of all the artisans, the like of which has
heretofore never been seen or published. By Hartmann Schopper of Nuremberg.
Published in Frankfurt am Main, 1568.” (p. 667, cat. no. 8 [371]).
Woodcut on fine laid paper trimmed with a
narrow margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 8.3 x 6.5 cm; (image borderline)
7.9 x 6.1 cm.
TIB 20.8.102 (371) (Jane S Peters 1985, “The
Illustrated Bartsch: German Masters of the Sixteenth Century”, vol. 20 [Part 2],
New York, Abaris Books, p. 693, cat. no. 8.102 [ 371]); New Hollstein (German) 51.102.
The British Museum offers the following
description of this print: “One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing an
open landscape with a huntsman, on his right side a dog, and on his left hand a
falcon, across his shoulders a rifle, in the background a lake with waterfowl”
(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-0206-103-101).
Condition: a richly inked and well-printed
(near faultless) impression showing no sign of wear to the printing plate
suggesting that this is a lifetime/early impression, trimmed with a narrow
margin around the borderline and laid onto a support of archival (millennium
quality) washi paper providing larger margins. The lower left margin corner is
clipped otherwise the sheet is in an excellent condition.
I am selling this superb (museum quality) woodcut
showing a hunter with his gun, dog and falcon for AU$288 in total (currently US$206.56/EUR194.35/GBP164.25 at the time of
posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world,
but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this marvellous
impression—possibly a lifetime impression from 1568 based on the quality of the
line showing no sign of wear to the printing plate—by one of the most famous of
the old master printmakers, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com)
and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
Note that I would prefer to sell this print
with Heinrich Knoefler’s wood engraving, “A Hunter Meeting Saint Wolfgang”, 1866,
after Ludwig Seitz (see https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2022/04/heinrich-knoeflers-wood-engraving.html)
for the total combined price for the two prints of AU$435 (currently US$311.80/EUR293.56/GBP248.01).
This print has been sold (along with the print by Knoefler)
