print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1834,0712.63
- Description
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Diagram of the spheres; the four elements at centre surrounded by the seven plantes, the zodiac, crystalline heaven and the primum mobile; above God and angels; below Christ and the apostles; in upper corners the arms of Saxony. Very late impression of an illustration first used in Ulrich Pinder's 'Speculum intellectuale felicitatis humane', Nuremberg: Höltzel, 1510.
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1510
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 millimetres
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Width: 119 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Acquisition notes
- This important group of prints by and after Dürer and Lucas van Leyden was purchased by Ottley in the second part of the Stowe sale. They were listed in the 1837 inventory under the numbers Kk,6.1 to 162 and were also registered as 1834,0712.1 to 162. Both the 1834,0712 and the Kk,6 numbers have been used in the past, but it is too disruptive to change them now as so many have been mounted. Instead on every record the alternative number has been entered as an additional number. The 162 prints were all sold on 19 June 1834; Ottley bought 20 lots in that day's sale and the total price paid by the BM was £95 17s 6d. Ottley seems to have done the bidding at the sale in person. (AVG 2019)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1834,0712.63
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: Kk,6.63