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title-page
Object Type
print
title-page
Museum number
1874,0711.1818
Description
Title-border with twenty-four portraits of physicians; half-length figures, arranged in pairs, standing between columns in four rows, some holding instruments of their profession; at bottom Venus and Adonis in contemporary dress, seated in a garden; used on the title-page to Lorenz Fries, 'Spiegel der Artzney', Strasbourg: Balthasar Beck, 1532 Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name
Printed by:
Balthasar Beck
School/style
German
Production date
1532
Production place
Printed in:
Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
100 millimetres
(Opening)
Height:
263 millimetres
Width:
181 millimetres
Width:
81 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(Undescribed)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
medicine/health
classical mythology
classical deity
Associated names
Illustration to:
Lorenz Fries
Representation of:
St Cosmas
Representation of:
St Damian
Representation of:
Avicenna
Representation of:
St Serapion
Representation of:
St Luke
Representation of:
St Paul
Representation of:
Galen
Representation of:
Paracelsus
Representation of:
Pedanius Dioscorides
Representation of:
Oribasius
Representation of:
Hippocrates
Representation of:
Asclepius
Representation of:
Themison of Laodicea
Representation of:
Erasistratus
Representation of:
Herophilus
Representation of:
Aphrodite/Venus
Representation of:
Adonis
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Spiegel der Artzney
(Strasbourg 1532)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
H G Gutekunst
Acquisition date
1874
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1874,0711.1818