Four Plates from: Perspectiva Corporum Regularium

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JOST AMMAN (1539-1591) AFTER WENZEL JAMNITZER (1507/08-1585)
Four Plates from: Perspectiva Corporum Regularium
four etchings, 1568, on laid paper, one sheet with watermark Small Arms of Nuremberg (similar to Briquet 919), the others without watermark, fine impressions printing with much tone and wiping marks, with margins
Plates 180 x 261 mm. (and similar)
Sheets 189 x 273 mm. (and similar)
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Provenance

With Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

New Hollstein (Amman, Book Illustrations 44.30, 31, 42, 50)

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Lot Essay

This lot includes four of the fifty illustrations by Jost Amman for Wenzel Jamnitzer's book on perspective, published in Nuremberg in 1568: Plate E. V (Two Octahedrons); Plate E.VI (Two stereometric Solids); Plate G.V (Two transparent Spheres); and Plate I.III (A stereometric Construction).
Wenzel Jamnitzer was the most celebrated goldsmith of his time, and served several Holy Roman Emperors. Amman's etchings are based on Jamnitzer's drawings, which in turn were drawn from three-dimensional models Jamnitzer had created out of paper and wood. The Perspectiva Corporum Regularium is the most elaborate and opulently illustrated book on perspective of the second part of the 16th century.

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