Detail of the ‘Holbein’ paper theatre.
It is based on two 16th century sources, a drawing by Holbein (below) and a print depicting a festival structure in Antwerp in 1549.
It measures approx 300 x250mm (12 x 9″) x about 35mm deep .
ONLY 2 have been made.
The ‘set’ is a series of lino block prints and the cast and audience (being about 50mm tall) are dry-point prints. All are then painted with watercolour.
There is also an edition of 5 D.I.Y. kits of un-cut, un-painted sheets. See below.
Hans Holbein (the Younger) 1497- 1543.
Apollo and the muses on Parnassus, 1533.
Pen and watercolour, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Sketch for a festival decoration commissioned by the merchants of the Steelyard in London to celebrate the coronation procession of Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII.
A triumphal ‘Gate’ in Antwerp
near St George’s Church in 1549.
Built to celebrate the Joyous Entry of the son of Charles V, later to become Philip II of Spain.
An unknown (to me) designer, but the architectural style influenced by the publication of Serlio’s work by Pieter Coecke van Aalst in 1539.
ALSO
An A4 size folder containing the printed, but un-cut and un-painted sheets (with some helpful hints) for the 16th century ‘Holbein’ theatre.
There are 4 sheets of lino-block ‘setting’ and several small dry-point (intaglio) sheets of about 50 performers and audience, of my
re-working from Holbein and his contemporaries.
An edition of only 5. @ £50 each.
