print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1875,0710.258
Title: Series: Old Testament Illustrations
Description: Lot and his daughters; Lot sitting on the right, holding a flask of wine, one of his daughters seated next to him and encouraging him to drink, standing in front of him his other daughter. On the left in the background the burning city of Sodom. Letterpress on verso visible. Here illustration to 'Chronica, Beschreybung und gemeyne anzeyge, Vonn aller Wellt herkommen....', Frankfurt: Christian Egenolph, 1535. 1533 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Sebald Beham; Printed by: Christian Egenolph
School/style
Production date: 1533
Production place: Printed in: Frankfurt am Main
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 51 millimetres; Width: 70 millimetres
Curator's comments: See Curatorial Comment for 1875,0710.275.
Bibliographic references: Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte (284); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.448.9); Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (pp.166-7); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.230.1-73)
Location: Not on display
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Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Sodom
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1875
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1875,0710.258

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