Occupation title source |
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Goltschlager |
Occupation title (english) |
Gold Beater/Gold leaf maker |
Hiscode |
88070 |
Description of Image |
Two men inside a stonecutter's workshop fashion gravestones and sarcophagus covers. One sits on a bench straddling the stone he is cutting. He raises a heavy mallet over his head, preparing to strike it down on the blunt end of a chisel he holds against the stone. Chips of stone are near his feet. Behind him, a young bareheaded man stands erect, cutting into a huge block of stone with a heavy mallet and a chisel. A square and another mallet hang on nails in the wall in the background on the right. On the left, a sculpted head hangs from a rope to a nail. Light enters the shop through a large w...
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Gender |
Male |
Title of the image |
Goltschlager |
Translation (English) |
Gold Beater/Gold leaf maker |
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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