print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1875,0710.906
- Description
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Title-page border with the arms of Wittenberg, children riding on monsters, and two soldiers supporting a shield with the brazen serpent (Lotter's printer's mark), on a black ground; used on title-page to Desiderii Erasmui ad reverendssimum ..., M. Lotter, Wittenberg 1520. c. 1519
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1518-1520 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres (borderlines)
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Width: 120 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Dodgson by Hans Cranach, Hollstein lists the work as workshop of Lucas Cranach I, Koepplin and Falk as an original by Cranach I.
Used in several editions by Melchior Lotter the younger 1519-21.
Another impression is on the same mount.
Cf. D. Koepplin / T. Falk, Lucas Cranach: Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, 2 vols, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel, 1974, no. 212.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0710.906