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map
Object Type
print
map
Museum number
1848,1111.7-8
Description
Terrestial map of the eastern hemisphere/ the Stabius map of the world; the globe as a palnisphere surrounded by twelve winged wind heads; the arms of Cardinal Lang in upper left corner, the arms of Stabius at lower left; printed from two blocks; nineteenth-century impression from the original block. 1515 Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Albrecht Dürer
School/style
German
Production date
1515
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
639 millimetres
Width:
850 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
BM has another nineteenth-century impression, see 1895,0122.779.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(261)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.308.126)
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog
(261)
Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations
(242)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(Undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
map/plan
Associated names
Associated with:
Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg
(Dedicated to)
Associated with:
Johann Stabius
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Austrian National Library
Acquisition date
1848
Acquisition notes
Inscribed on verso: 'Presented by the Imperial Library, Vienna November 1848.'
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1848,1111.7-8