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print; book-illustration; title-page

Object Type: print; book-illustration; title-page
Museum number: 1864,1114.754
Description: Title-page border with four separate strips, with Greek and Roman philosophers, writers and the coronation of Homer; at the top-centre the bust of Solomon, flanked by two philosophers on either side; the horizontal strips are divided into five compartments, each containing two scholars; in the lower section Homer is being crowned at a well by Calliope, the remaining eight muses stand on either side; first used in Strabo, Geographicorum comentarii ..., Basel, V. Curio, March 1523 (2°); this impression was used as title-page to Clemens Romanus, Recognitionum Libri X ..., Rufino Torano Aquileiense Interprete ..., Basel, J. Bebel, August 1526 (2°). 1523 Metalcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger; Block cut by: Jacob Faber; Published by: Johann Bebel
School/style
Production date: 1523
Materials
Technique: metalcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 277 millimetres (borderlines); Width: 187 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Cut by Faber after a design by Holbein. Two other impressions (one from the first edition in which the border was used) are also extant at the BM. See F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, exh. cat. Basel 1984, no. 419. C. Müller: Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, exh. cat. 1997, nos. 45, 45.a.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: philosopher; scholar; classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Solomon; Representation of: Homer; Representation of: Muses; Representation of: Socrates; Representation of: Pythagoras; Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Plato; Representation of: Demosthenes; Representation of: Plutarch; Representation of: Cicero; Representation of: Pliny the Elder; Representation of: Sallust; Representation of: Euripides; Representation of: Hesiod; Representation of: Ovid; Representation of: Lucretius; Representation of: Pindarus; Representation of: Theocritus; Representation of: Aristophanes; Representation of: Virgil; Representation of: Horace; Representation of: Quintilian; Representation of: Aristides; Representation of: Lucian; Representation of: Livy; Representation of: Aulus Gellius
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1864
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1864,1114.754