print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1874,0711.1809
- Description
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Title-page border in the form of an epitaph with putti and tritons; candelabra-ornaments at left and r; first used in: Galeotus Martius Narnensis, De homine libri duo (...), Basel, J. Froben, May 1517 (4°); this impression is taken from an edition of: Desiderius Erasmus, Apologia ad Jacobum Fabrum Stapulensem (...), Basel, J. Froben, February 1518 (4°); with the letter I of an alphabet series on verso. 1517
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1517
- Dimensions
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Height: 184 millimetres (borderlines)
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Width: 128 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, exh. cat. Basel 1984, no. 239.
C. Müller: Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, exh. cat. 1997, no. 15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0711.1809