Occupation title source |
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Bildhauwer |
Occupation title (english) |
Sculptor |
Hiscode |
16120 |
Description of Image |
In the midst of a glazier's shop, a glazier wearing a broad-brimmed hat stands holding a small dish in his left hand and a paint brush in his right, working on glass set into lead frames. He faces the shop wall where a window of paned glass, decorated in the middle with a coat of arms chevron, hangs on the wall. A barrel is under the table to collect any waste glass.
At the left, a second man, wearing eyeglasses, uses a mallet with a round head to tap pieces of glass into place within lead cames or channels. He carefully steadies the metal frame with his left hand. A barrel for scrap glass...
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Gender |
Male |
Title of the image |
Bildhauwer |
Translation (English) |
Sculptor |
Language source |
German |
Country source |
Germany |
Artist's name |
Jost Amman |
Artist's years and locations |
1539-1591 |
Date of creation |
1568 |
Medium |
Plate |
Collection name |
Ständebuch |
Provenance |
Jost Amman's Staende und handwerter mit versen von Hans Sachs. Frankfurt a/M 1568, Reprint Muenchen 1884 |
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