print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1862,0517.4
- Description
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Printer's mark of Johann Froben; with two snakes coiled around a staff on a shield held by four putti; set in a Renaissance arch, landscape background. For an unidentified publication printed by Froben in November 1517.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1517
- Dimensions
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Height: 103 millimetres (Borderline)
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Height: 298 millimetres (Sheet size)
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Width: 197 millimetres
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Width: 71 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Printer's mark first used in Galeotto Marzio, 'De homine libri duo', printed in May 1517.
BM also has another three impressions from other works printed by Froben, see 1992,U.108 and 1895,0122.1125 and 1874,1212.426.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1862
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1862,0517.4