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title-page
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print
Object Type
title-page
print
Museum number
1850,1014.66
Description
Title-border with Willibald Pirckheimer's coat-of-arms held by two putti; columns at left and r; the column at left surmounted by a crane atop a philosopher's egg; the one at right with a satyr playing panpipes. Title-page illustration first used in to Pirckheimer's translation of Plutarch, 'Chaeroni', Nuremberg: Peypus, 1513. Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name
Print made by:
Albrecht Dürer
Printed by:
Friedrich Peypus
Formerly attributed to:
Hans Springinklee
School/style
German
Production date
1513
Production place
Printed in:
Nuremberg
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
195 millimetres
Width:
125 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
BM has another impression see 1895,0122.775. Felix Garcia (email August 2016) notes that the same title-border is used in five of Pirckheimer's books from 1513-1517.
Bibliographic references
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog
(281.1)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.379.1)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
heraldry
Associated names
Associated with:
Willibald Pirckheimer
Illustration to:
Willibald Pirckheimer
(Translator)
Illustration to:
Plutarch
Associated titles
Associated Title:
De vitanda usura
(Nuremberg 1515)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
G Gancia
Acquisition date
1850
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1850,1014.66