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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1875,0710.283
Title
Series:
Old Testament Illustrations
Description
The conquest of Jerusalem; soldiers putting ladders up against the city's fortifications and starting to climb them while stones are being hurled from the top of the wall. To the right approaching troops with halberds, in the background more buildings. 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
German
Production date
1533
Production place
Printed in:
Frankfurt am Main
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
51 millimetres
Width:
72 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
(348)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.449.35)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(pp.166-7)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(VIII.230.1-73)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
old testament
battle
Associated places
Associated with:
Jerusalem
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Chronica, Beschreybung und gemeyne anzeyge, Vonn aller Wellt herkommen
(Frankfurt 1535)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Louis Bihn
Acquisition date
1875
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1875,0710.283