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Print, Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch,… (Writing Desk and Chair)
This is a Print. It was designed by Johann Jakob Schübler and published by Jeremias Wolff and engraved by Johann Balthasar Probst. It is dated ca. 1720 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is etching and engraving on off-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
Its dimensions are
34 x 21.2 cm (13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
It is signed
In plate above lower edge of plate mark: Ich: Iacob Schübler: inv: del: Norimb: Ier. Wolff exc. Aug: Vind: C.P.S.C.M. Iohann Ballthasar Probst direxit.
It is inscribed
In plate below image: Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch, nach der neuen bequemen manier, nebst / einem Frantzöischen Commod stuhl, daran die Lehne nach der höhle des / menschlichen Ruckens ausgefüttert, und mit einer Strebfeder versehen ist, da(s)s / die Lehne im hintersich biegen wohl nach geben aber nicht brechen kan. In plate lower right of image in margin: 1. recto: in graphite lower left in margin: IV /NT / H [illeg.] verso: in graphite lower left: inx / 421/3 (inscribed with a circle)
Cite this object as
Print, Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch,… (Writing Desk and Chair); Designed by Johann Jakob Schübler (German, 1689–1741); Engraved by Johann Balthasar Probst (1673–1750); Published by Jeremias Wolff (German, 1663–1750); Germany; etching and engraving on off-white laid paper; 34 x 21.2 cm (13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop; 1957-162-2
