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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1858,0626.302
Title
Series:
Teutsch Cicero illustrations
Description
Four drinkers interrupted by a devil with a message from hell; the drinkers sitting on benches around a table in an inn, the young drinker on the far right vomitting. The devil with claws stamdomg on the right, pointing towards the image of a hanged man in his hand. Two blank fields in the shape of windows or picture frames on the back wall. Late impression of an illustration used in Johann von Schwartzenberg, 'Ain buchle wider das zutrincken', published as part of 'Der Teütsch Cicero', Augsburg: H. Steiner, 1535. Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Jörg Breu I
Printed by:
Heinrich Steiner
School/style
German
Production date
1534
Production place
Published in:
Augsburg
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
156 millimetres
Width:
107 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(678)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(II.118.19)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
devil/demon
drunkenness
Associated names
Illustration to:
Johann, Freiherr von Schwarzenberg und Hohenlandsberg
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Ain buchle wider das zutrincken
(Augsburg 1534)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Henry Graves & Co
Acquisition date
1858
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1858,0626.302