Gropius Christmas Card

Collection Type

  • Art

GUSN

GUSN-334367

Description

Greeting card produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the image of a work of art with red and green conical shapes. A very happy/new year to you/and Ise. [illegible inscription]/Moncha

Details

Descriptive Terms

greeting cards
paper (fiber product)
ink
Correspondence
Card, Greeting
Card, Greeting

Inscription

PERSPECTIVE STUDY/Engraving from Wenzel Jamnitzer's Perspectiva Cor-/porum Regularium, printed in Nuremberg, 1568. The/Jamnitzers were famous Nuremberg goldsmiths. These adventures in perspective were the results of experi-/ments begun by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer./THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (Printed description of work of art used for the greeting card)
A very happy/new year to you/and Ise./[Illegible signature] (Handwritten season's greetings)
[Illegible signature] (Signature from second artist)

Associated Person

Moncha Sert

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 5/8 x 4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Ise Gropius

Accession Number

1984.496.158

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