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Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch,… (Writing Desk and Chair)

Johann Jakob Schüblerca. 1720

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

An elaborate writing desk is featured in a draped corner of a room with a bookshelf on the left and a window at right. Ornamented with globes at left and right, the desk features four sections with multiple drawers at the base, as well as a central cartouche shaped drawered section above. Decorated with swags, festoons, heavy architectural mouldings and surmounted by an astrolabe, this central section holds a candle, writing materials and a book rest above a slanted writing board. An equally elaborate chair is placed in front of the desk.

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  • Title: Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch,… (Writing Desk and Chair)
  • Creator: Johann Jakob Schübler
  • Creator Lifespan: 1689/1741
  • Date Created: ca. 1720
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop
  • Medium: Etching and engraving on off-white laid paper
  • Signed: In plate above lower edge of plate mark: Ich: Iacob Schübler: inv: del: Norimb: Ier. Wolff exc. Aug: Vind: C.P.S.C.M. Iohann Ballthasar Probst direxit.
  • Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
  • Inscribed: In plate below image: Ein façonirter Schreib-Tisch, nach der neuen bequemen manier, nebst /einem Frantzöischen Commod stuhl, daran die Lehne nach der höhle des /menschlichen Ruckens ausgefüttert, und mit einer Strebfeder versehen ist, da(s)s / die Lehne im hintersich biegen wohl nach geben aber nicht brechen kan.In plate lower right of image in margin: 1.recto: in graphite lower left in margin: IV /NT / H [illeg.]verso: in graphite lower left: inx / 421/3 (inscribed with a circle)
  • Dimensions: 34 x 21.2 cm (13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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