print; title-page

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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
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Production date: 1532
Production place: Printed in: Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
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Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 100 millimetres (Opening); Height: 263 millimetres; Width: 181 millimetres; Width: 81 millimetres
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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
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Acquisition date: 1874
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1874,0711.1818

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