print; broadside

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Object Type: print; broadside
Museum number: 1856,0614.117
Title: Object: Ein erklerung der Tafel des Gerichts, so der köstlich Maler Appelles, dem König Ptolomeo fürmalet.
Description: Broadside on two sheets on the calumny of Apelles; with a woodcut printed from two blocks containing a panoramic view of a palace with four rooms illustrating various parts of the story from left to right; and with eight columns of four lines of letterpress verse by Hans Sachs above the illustration. (n.p.: n.d.) Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Formerly attributed to: Erhard Schön; Formerly attributed to: Peter Flötner
School/style
Production date: 1534
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 212 millimetres (Borderline); Height: 261 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 360 millimetres (Per sheet, c.)
Curator's comments: BM also has a sixteenth-century impression with hand-colouring and the remainder of the Sachs poem printed on another two sheets attached below the woodcut, see 1877,0609.95. This broadside is also printed by Hans Weigel the Eoler or Younger in Nuremberg.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (R 181 b); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.536.26a)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: judge; classical mythology
Associated names: Associated with: Apelles; Illustration to: Hans Sachs; Representation of: Midas
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1856,0614.117

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