• Unknown, Italy, early 17th century (engraver (printmaker))
• Rutger Kasemann (etcher)
• Rutger Kasemann (designer)

Album of architectural prints

ca. 1615-1650

- This album is composed of thirteen architectural prints once in the possession of the stonemason Hans Görg Koch, and possibly assembled by him. The first two prints, DR1988:0427:001 and DR1988:0427:002, are the title page and a print showing examples of the Tuscan order from Rutger Kasemann's 'ARCHITETURA LEHR SEIVLEN BOCHG' of 1615 (Hollstein vol. 16, nos. 1 - 24). The prints DR1988:0427:003 - DR1988:0427:005 and DR1988:0427:007 are elevations and plans of early Baroque church façades in Rome, and the prints DR1988:0427:006 and DR1988:0427:008 - DR1988:0427:013, are orthographic designs for doorframes. The album pages bear three separate watermarks, none of which have been found in the literature: one on the flyleaves, another on the two Kasemann prints, and a third on the eleven prints showing churches and doorframes.

• pattern drawings
• record drawings
• theoretical drawings

Mostly engraving and etching with some etching

album: 33.8 x 25.2 x .8 cm sheets: 33.2 x 24.5 cm

DR1988:0427:001-013

• line drawings
• renderings

• plans (drawings)
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

- This album contains thirteen prints fixed into guards, with endpapers at front and back. The cover is composed of cardboard faced with yellowish-brown paper and closes with two pairs of ties made from animal hide. The condition of the object is poor: the covering paper is missing in many places, especially at the edges and at the spine, which is weakened from age, wormholes and water damage. Water damage at l. edge of most sheets, and at l.c. of folio 7.

inscribed - on the cover, by the collector ? in black chalk ? u.c.: with faded inscription [illeg.] signed, inscribed, and dated - on the front flyleaf, by the collector, in pen and brown ink, u.c.: "Hans Görg Koch / Steinmeitz ... / ... 1649 ..." inscribed, dated, and numbered - on DR1988:0427:001, by an unknown hand, in the plate on the image,, u.c.: "ARCHIT / ECTVRA / LEHR / SEIVLEN BOCHG"; c.: "1615"; l.c.: "ROTGERVS / KASEMAN / INVEN / TOR"; and b.: "GIETRVCKHT 30 COLLEN B[E]I IOHAN BUCHSENMACHER" inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:002, by an unknown hand, in the plate on the image, u.r.: "TVS*CANA"; l.c.: "RK"; and throughout: with measurements and letters identifying of architectural details inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427::003, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, t.: "FACIES EXTERNA TEMPLIS ATHANASII A GREGORIO / XIII PONT. OPT. MAX. GRECORVM NATIONI EX AEDIFICATI / 2" inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:004, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, t.: "FACIES EXTERNA TEMPLI SANCTI LVDOVICI REGIS. / GALLORVM NATONIS GALLICANAE / ... / 3" numbered - on DR1988:0427:005, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "4" inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:006, by an unknown hand, in the plate on the image, u.r.: "V"; b.: "Podiorum in Italia ... superaddi di item et uni rustcce [sic]"; and throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:007, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, t.: "FACIES EXTERNA TEMPLI SANCTAE / SVSANNAE IN MONTE QVIRINALI / 8" inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:008, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, t.: "FENESTRAE LIMEN INFERNIVS / X"; below the image, b.: "Poterit porta ... ut pondus liminis melius sustineatur"; and throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:009, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "XI"; and throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:010, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "XII"; below the image, b.: "Consulo scutum hic et appendetia ex [e]re fieri, et muro adpingi"; and on the image, throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:011, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "XIII"; below the image, b.: "qui s[e]pe contingit ... propter rationem dictam fol IX"; and on the image, throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:012, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "XIIII"; below the image, b.: "Posent et Portae ... quam paruo sumptu tibi sumes."; and on the image, throughout: with measurements inscribed and numbered - on DR1988:0427:013, by an unknown hand, in the plate above the image, u.r.: "XIX"; below the image, b.: "Est et haec curribus ... vero quatuor inferi / orib"; and on the image, throughout: with measurements

• façades
• doorframes
• Tuscan order