Conrad Meyer "The family of Dietrich Meyer or: table breeding". 1645. Conrad Meyer1618 Zurich - 1689 ibid. Etching on handmade paper. Inscribed in the plate "Tischzucht" o.Mi. as well as below "Con. Meyer fecit et excudit A. 1645". Hollstein 41. The etching was conceived as a New Year's greeting and is intended to appeal to the observance of good table manners . With this work, Conrad Meyer established a tradition that has survived to the present day, in which so-called Zurich New Year's Leaves are published at the turn of the year. The present work shows Dietrich Meyer's family at table prayers in a bourgeois house. The original plate is in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung und Fotoarchiv, Zurich. Margins unevenly trimmed.Minimally yellowed. Dimensions: pl. 14.5 x 24 cm, sheet 15 x 24.6 cm. Conrad Meyer 1618 Zurich - 1689 ibid Conrad Meyer received his first artistic training from his father Dietrich Meyer, a Zurich engraver, which he continued in 1683 with Joseph Ross in Bern.Via Augsburg, Munich and Frankfurt am Main, where he came into contact with Matthäus Merian. 1642 return to Zurich. With a print appealing to good manners, published for New Year's Day 1645, he founded the Zurich New Year's Leaves, which have since been traditionally published at the beginning of the year. In 1649 he married Susanna Murer, the granddaughter of the glass painter Christoph Murer. In 1653 and 1657 he travelled to Switzerland. His son Johannes Meyer the Younger was also an artist.