print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1874,0711.2028
- Description
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Caricature of Luther with seven heads; identifying Luther as a doctor, a monk, a Turk, a preacher, a fanatic, a church visitor and a wild man with a club. Title-page to Cochlaeus, 'Septiceps Lutherus', Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1529.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1529
- Dimensions
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Height: 162 millimetres
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Height: 197 millimetres
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Width: 151 millimetres (approx. size of sheet)
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Width: 135 millimetres (edge of frame)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For curatorial comment, see BM 1880,0710.592. Another impression, lacking letterpress title, is BM 1865,0610.413.
MS note on back says "H. Weiditz," a former attribution.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Several holes in sheet; ripped on side edges
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Septiceps Lutherus (Leipzig 1529)
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0711.2028