title-page; print

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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
Production date: 1513
Production place: Printed in: Nuremberg
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 195 millimetres; Width: 125 millimetres
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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
Associated names: Associated with: Willibald Pirckheimer; Illustration to: Willibald Pirckheimer (Translator); Illustration to: Plutarch
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1850,1014.66

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