print;
book of prints
- Museum number
- 1855,0609.1207-1216
- Title
- Object: Lucas Cranach's Stammbuch
- Description
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Christian von Mechel, ed., "Lucas Cranach's Stammbuch enthaltend die von Ihm selbst in Miniatur gemahlte Abbildung des den Segen ertheilenden Heilandes und die Bildnesse der vorzüglichsten Fürsten und Gelehrten aus der Reformations-Geschichte. Nebst kurzen biographischen Nachrichten von denselben, den Handschiften der vier Theologen und dem Vorladungs- und Sicherheitsbrief Kaisers Carl V., wodorch Luther aud den Reichstag zu Worms entboten ward." (Berlin, von Mechel; Basel, Wilhelm Haas) 1814; containing 10 prints after miniatures in the "Stammbuch" of Lucas Cranach the Younger in the Prussian Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, including a colour wood-engraving printed with gold highlights showing Christ the Redeemer holding an orb, and portraits of German rulers and religious leaders. Bound together with facsimiles of handwriting by Reformation theologians and letterpress introduction. Original paper title wrapper, bound in marbled boards.
Etchings and engravings, with some stipple
Colour wood-engraving printed from multiple blocks
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 447 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 300 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Evidence of earlier binding (stitch marks) in the final sheets of the volume.
For a later series of colour collotypes after the "Stammbuch" see 1929,0416.155.1-10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Protestant Reformation
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Lucas Cranach's Stammbuch
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1855,0609.1207-1216
