print; title-page

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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
Production date: 1520
Production place: Printed in: Basel
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 239 millimetres; Width: 172 millimetres
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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
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
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1856,0614.118

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