Neues Reiß Buch
Neues Reiß Buch is a 1700 pattern book of engraved figure studies by Johann Ulrich Kraus, after François Verdier, held by Heidelberg University Library and intended for artists and draughtsmen learning anatomy and pose. The plates show reclining and foreshortened male nudes, heads in profile, and a flying winged figure, drawn in fine parallel hatching on cream paper. A designer could take from them the dynamic poses, muscular modelling and tonal hatching typical of Baroque academic drawing.
