print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1876,0510.512
- Title
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Object: Doctor Schnabel von Rom
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Object: Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom
- Description
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A broadside on doctors in Rome and their protective clothing against the plague; with an engraving after an Italian broadside showing a figure dressed with along coat, gloves, mask and hat, holding in the right hand a stick with a winged hourglass, in the left background the same figure and children running away, in the right background a view of an Italian city; with engraved title and text. (Nuremberg, Fürst: 1656)
- Production date
- 1656
- Dimensions
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Height: 301 millimetres
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Width: 216 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- An Italian broadside of 1656 (BM 1880,0710.522) of the same subject has the imprint "In Roma, & in Perugia, per Sebastiano Zecchini". It appears that the Italian and this German broadside were both copied from a Rome sheet (publisher unknown) by J. Columbina (Columbani?) .
Ref.:
Hampe, 263
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1876,0510.512
