print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: 1871,1209.491
Description: Title-border with Aristotle and Phyllis; at bottom and figures among foliage at left, right and top; impression from an unidentified publication (probably an edition of Münster's 'Cosmographia', printed by Heinrich Petri) of a border first used for Poliziano's 'Miscellaneorum centuria una', printed by Curio in Basel in July 1522; late impression. 1522 Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger; Printed by: Heinrich Petri
School/style
Production date: 1522
Production place: Printed in: Basel
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 73 millimetres (Opening); Height: 146 millimetres; Width: 53 millimetres; Width: 95 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For an earlier impression, see 1874,0711.1813.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (41); Passavant 1860-64 / Le Peintre-Graveur (III.413.128)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Phyllis
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,1209.491

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