Lot 60: ERASMUS HORNICK

DESIGNS FOR TWO DISHES

418 by 284 mm

Pen and black ink and gray and yellow wash over black chalk with traces of red chalk

Said to be from the Collection of the Prince of Liechtenstein;
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, 1958;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 Apriil 1996, lot 49

Hornick was an Antwerp-born goldsmith and ornament designer, who worked closely with Jacopo Strada (see introduction to lots 41-60). He is first recorded in Augsburg, where he married in 1555 and is also documented in Nürnberg in 1559-66, in Augsburg again in 1578 and in Prague in 1582, the year before his death. He was a prolific designer who published various pattern books of designs for vases, ewers and jewellery during the 1560s.