album amicorum stammbuch friendship album

pictorial miscellanea from this predominantly German early modern manuscript genre, especially those paintings that derive from prints. These 'autograph albums' or souvenirs of their time at university were kept in the 16th and 17th centuries by German students, the paintings commissioned by their fellow students, not the album owners. I am particularly interested in the numerous examples of paintings copied from prints. [Feel free to e-mail me about anything -- malcmjones1@gmail.com
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SOURCE PRINT FOR PREVIOUS -- Man as the plaything of Fortune, one of a set of 6 Sayings/Proverbs about Fortune engraved in the late 16C (a.1590) by Dirk Volkertsz Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck. This from the Rijksmus Monochromatic Artwork, Tree Illustration, Adventures In Wonderland, Advertising Poster, Abstract 3d, Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Metropolitan Museum, Museum Of Art, The Album
SOURCE PRINT FOR PREVIOUS -- Man as the plaything of Fortune, one of a set of 6 Sayings/Proverbs about Fortune engraved in the late 16C (a.1590) by Dirk Volkertsz Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck. This from the Rijksmus
an old book with pictures of people and writing on the pages, including one man in top hat
Old Wives Mill/ Altweibermuehle -- earliest example known to me, from the album amicorum of Simon Haendel, page dated 1595. Olomouc, MS M I 472, f. 88r. Several 17thC (and later) prints of the motif exist, but none this early, though the present painting perhaps implies the former existence of such prints in the 16thC..Another, apparently, on f.34r of Daniel von Redern's album (entries dated 1589-1613). Kunglige Biblioteket Stockholm, Ir 2a
an old painting with people and animals in it
Pfaffenmuehle. Pfaffenmuhle. ALSO proverb depiction "Wie das korn ist, so das mel" ["Such corn, such meal" -- as the corn is, so is the meal"] so watercoloured painting interleaved into a 1564 Sambucus "Emblemata" used as a Stammbuch by Sylvio Spannocchi Silvius Spannocchius c.1575 -- now in the BSB, L. impr.c.n.mss200, p.400
three vases with designs painted on them sitting side by side in front of each other
[SEE PREVIOUS & NEXT] Inscription: "Wunder uber Wunder die Ehsel auff den Baum und die vogel drunder" [wonder upon wonder, the ass in the tree and birds thereunder!] -- A wooden carving of the scene labelled "wunder ibe[r] wunder der esel uf dem bom die fogel darun[t]er" dated 1521 was formerly in the Oetenbachkloster Gastzimmer -- now in the Landesmuseum, Zurich. SEE PREVIOUS for detail of the asses in the tree as found in contemporary alba amicorum
an old painting with two women and one man on a surfboard in the water
From the album of Suffridus Saarda -- Hs.505, Provinciale Bibliotheek van Friesland, Leeuwarden, f.112r dated 1607 -- copied from the Coornhert print SEE NEXT
a glass vase with colorful designs on it
enamel-painted Bohemian Stangenglas dated 1592 and decorated with the 'wonder' of the ass in the tree and the birds under [SEE PREVIOUS album paintings] -- sold Bonhams 3rd November 2016, lot 76
an image of a stained glass window with people and animals in the room below it
Pfaffenmuehle Pfaffenmuhle. part of window painted in 1566 by Hans Jakob Kilchsperger, now in the Scweizerisches Landesmseum, Zurich. (I've scanned it from Mezger "Narrenidee und Fastnachtsbrauch" (Konbstanz, 1991)
a cartoon drawing of a man looking in the mirror at another man who is talking to him
Pfaffenmuehle Pfaffenmuhle print issued in 1577, woodcut by Tobias Stimmer
Cupid as fowler from the Dobler album, entries dated Augsburg, 1631-4. MS Copenhagen, Thott 1286 4o Small Birds, The Devil, Copenhagen, Sketch Book, Birds
Cupid as fowler from the Dobler album, entries dated Augsburg, 1631-4. MS Copenhagen, Thott 1286 4o
an old black and white drawing of people in a boat on the water, surrounded by other
Pfaffenmuehle Pffafenmuhle by the Monogrammist HR -- think this is (?uniquely) in the Rijksmus
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a can that has some type of art painted on it's side with words
[DETAIL OF NEXT] the asses in the tree! "Wunder uber Wunder!"
an image of a painting with people in it
Cupid triumphant -- lovers slain by Cupid's arrows littering the battlefield! From the Rentsch album, entries dated 1615x47. MS Copenhagen, Thott 432 80
an old man is talking to a woman who is petting a cat on the floor
"De monacho libidinoso" [The lecherous monk] -- wonderful early Eliz. ms. miniature in William Bowyer, "Heroica Eulogia", 1567. The lecherous monk is shown spinning -- that quintessentially women's occupation -- Latin captions translate as the proverbial "The cowl does not make the monk" and "nor (mere) form a man". She hits/threatens him with her slipper [cf. German 'Pantoffel-held', for the man dominated by his wife]. Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, California, HM 160, f103.
an old black and white drawing of people in front of a clock tower with figures on it
Altweiber muehle (old wives' mill) from the lost Allert album (Breslau/Wroclaw), this page dated 1630 -- scanned from TVeM no 351
an old black and white image of animals in the woods with clouds above them, vintage line drawing or engraving
from the 1639 "Vita Corneliana" -- but may well have been present in the 1624 ed (which I haven't seen). Keil "Stammbucher" p.61 no.78 cites another painted example in an album dated Nurnberg 1581