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title-page
Object Type
print
title-page
Museum number
1856,0614.118
Description
Title-page border with scenes of courtly life with Virtues and Vices below; Mercury and Apollo and Daphne in the upper section, Venus and Fortuna on the right and Cupid and Adulatio on l. Title page for Erasmus's 'Opera Divi Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis' (Basel: Johann Froben). 1520 Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name
Print made by:
Ambrosius Holbein
Printed by:
Johann Froben
School/style
German
Production date
1520
Production place
Printed in:
Basel
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
239 millimetres
Width:
172 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
This title page also used by Froben as illustration to Erasmus, 'C. Suetonius, Dio Cassius ...' [a collection of Roman historians], Basel: J. Froben, June 1518.See 1895,0122.1119
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(14 a)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical deity
virtues and vices
Associated names
Illustration to:
Desiderius Erasmus
Representation of:
Apollo
Representation of:
Publius Quinctilius Varus
Representation of:
Apelles
Representation of:
Daphne
Representation of:
Aphrodite/Venus
Representation of:
Hermes/Mercury
Representation of:
Eros/Cupid
Associated titles
Associated Title:
'Opera Divi Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginensis...'
(Basel 1520)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Henry Graves & Co
Acquisition date
1856
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1856,0614.118