Notes:
Engraving is hinged on white mat board with tape; dimensions including mat are 44 x 33 cm.
Hand-colored engraving, plate 134, is of wife of glassmaker, with tiered skirt, tray, and headpiece featuring various types of glass for sale, each numbered; legend provided below engraving. A glass factory is in background.
Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo created new type of publication by representing human form with inanimate objects in the 16th century; at the end of the 17th century, Nicolas de l'Armessin (Larmessin) engraved a series of plates, Costumes Grotesques, in which tradesmen were depicted with tools of their trade as body parts. Engelbrecht issued similar series of figures in his publication Assemblage nouveau des manouvries habilles, to which this engraving belonged.
"134" -- printed in upper right corner.
Text in French and German.
Sent to photography June 2012 (photography no. 1000116307).
Sent to photography June 2012 (photography no. 1000116307) for inclusion in book to be published in 2014 for the 250th anniversary of Baccarat.
One of four Englebrecht engravings made into post cards at The Corning Museum of Glass.
Displayed in the South Office corridor from November 2006-June 2012.
