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Neues Modelbuch
Rosina Helena Fürst grew up in Nuremberg in a family of engravers and printers, as was often the case for women who became artists. Her sister Magdalena, also an artist, had been a student of Maria Sibylla Merian. Rosina Fürst drew and engraved the complex illustrations of lace and embroidery for this two-volume model book published by her father. Lace was used on linens as well as to adorn both men’s and women’s clothing. Model books for calligraphy, lace patterns, and needlework were typically used exhaustively by their owners, and as a result few survive. The richly engraved domestic scene on the half-title page depicts women engaged in the obviously social activity of lace-making. -
Heures nouuelles dédiées a Monseigneur Dauphin, ecrites et grauées par Elisabeth Senault
French calligrapher and engraver Elisabeth Senault was trained by her father, engraver and writing master Louis Senault. After his death, she produced private prayer books for the French royal court. This intimate book of hours, in its original blind-stamped binding with silk brocade doublures, is completely engraved. Imitating the intricate illustrations of illuminated manuscript prayer books, Senault embellished her engraved plates with inventive decorative borders, floriated initials, delicate flowers, birds, tiny insects, arabesques, and flourishes. -
Lyon dans son lustre
Artist and engraver Claudine Brunand was likely related to the artist and woodcutter Michel Brunand. She worked for a number of printers and publishers in her native Lyon as well as in Germany. We know her for this charming, inventive, and marvelously original frontispiece. In a map of Lyon configured in the shape of a rampant lion, Brunand manages to incorporate each street and the city hall, along with heraldic shields and banners flying in the breeze. -
[Suite de quinze estampes représentant des oiseaux]
French engraver Marie Briot was the daughter of Isaac Briot, an engraver and draughtsman, and trained in his studio. In addition to this work, she also contributed numerous engravings to a book of emblems published in 1638 and 1639. This volume includes fifteen plates of birds in their natural environment. She signs her plates Marie Briot, Fecit identifying herself as the maker.
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