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The Jost Amman Print: Aigentliche Abbildung dess Gantzen Gewerbs der Kauffmanschaft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Dorothea D. Reeves
Dorothea D. Reeves
Affiliation:
Kress Library of Business and Economics atHarvard Graduate School of Business Administration
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Abstract

This allegorical representation of commerce is based on the business scene in sixteenth-century Germany. It was conceived by Johann Neudorfer, was engraved on six woodblocks by Jost Amman (1539–1591), and printed at Augsberg in 1622. Mr. Philip Hofer, Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Harvard College Library, early this year presented this intricately detailed engraving, measuring 30 × 46 inches, to Baker Library, where it enriches a growing collection of works of art portraying the business scene.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , Summer 1959 , pp. 175 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1959

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