print; map

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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
School/style
Production date: 1515
Materials
Technique
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
Associated names: Associated with: Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg (Dedicated to); Associated with: Johann Stabius
Acquisition name
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

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