Hans Caspar Lang I (1571-1645)

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Hans Caspar Lang I (1571-1645)

Design for a Roundel with Three Coats-of-Arms with an Eagle and a Swan; A Stained Glass Window with a Coat-of-Arms; The Coat-of-Arms of a Bishop; and a Decorative Cartouche with the Madonna and Child and Saint Sebastian

inscribed 'Anno M DC XXXIII' (1); signed with monogram, dated and inscribed 'Joacim Christoff Frieherr zu Mori burg und Beffurt. Herz zu bon dorff Koffnegg und Wuttenhal 1601' (2); inscribed and dated 'Iacobus Dei Gratia Epi scop[us] Constantie[n]sis Domi in[us] Argiae Maioris et Oenin gae. Anno Salutis. 1613' (3); and signed, dated and inscribed 'Hanns Kamerling diser zitt Ober Vogt der herrschaft Blumberg und Mersolt Bust sign Erloser ... 1572 DL'(4); black chalk, pen and brown ink
411 x 333mm. and smaller (4)

Lot Essay

Hans Caspar Lang was the most distinguished of a dynasty of glass painters from Schaffhausen. In 1625 he executed the wallpainting of the Great Meeting Room of Schaffhausen Town Hall. Lang was a member of the Council from 1613 and Bürgermeister from 1642 until his death. A drawing by Lang is at Stuttgart, H. Geissler, Zeichnung in Deutschland Seutsche Zeichner 1540-1640, Stuttgart, 1979, II, no. H9, illustrated

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