Occupation title source   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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