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title-page
Object Type
print
title-page
Museum number
1870,0813.306
Description
Reproduction of a woodcut title-page border, on the top a satyr blowing a pipe, on the left an angel playing a lute, on the right a column surmounted by a goat, on the bottom two putti holding an escutcheon with a tree, in the centre a rectangular space with the title. 1864 Lithograph
Producer name
Print made by:
Ralf Leopold von Retberg-Wettbergen
After:
Albrecht Dürer
(School of Dürer)
School/style
German
Production date
1864
Materials
paper
Technique
lithograph
Dimensions
Height:
166 millimetres
Width:
127 millimetres
Curator's comments
CD later attributed the woodcut to Dürer (1933). The woodcut was used in 1526 as title-page to the work 'Anzaygung etlicher Irriger mengel...'
Bibliographic references
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog
(p.259.2)
(reproduction)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.362)
(reproduction)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(276.42.II)
(Springinklee?; reproduction)
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Donated by:
F A C Prestel
Acquisition date
1870
Acquisition notes
Presented by Retberg to F.Prestel, and by him to the British Museum, 1870.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1870,0813.306