print; broadside

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Object Type: print; broadside
Museum number: 1877,0609.95
Title: Object: Ein erklerung der Tafel des Gerichts, so der köstlich Maler Appelles dem König Ptolomeo fürmalet.
Description: Broadside on four sheets on the calumny of Apelles; with a woodcut printed from two blocks containing a panoramic view of a palace with four rooms illustrating various parts of the story from left to right; and with eight columns of four lines of letterpress verse by Hans Sachs above the illustration and another eight columns of between 10 and 16 lines of letterpress verse below; the lower text section printed on two sheets pasted to the two sheets with the woodcut and upper text section. (Nuremberg: n.d.) Hand-coloured woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Formerly attributed to: Erhard Schön; Printed by: Hans Weigel the Younger (or the Elder?); Formerly attributed to: Peter Flötner
School/style
Production date: 1578-1590; 1534
Production place: Printed in: Nuremberg
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 213 millimetres (Borderline); Height: 385 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 360 millimetres (Per sheet, c.); Width: 368 millimetres (Per sheet, c.)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The broadside first printed by Albrecht Glockendon (before 1545, probably 1534). BM also has a Derschau impression without hand-colouring and with the lettering above the woodcut only, see 1856,0614.117.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (R 181 b) (Wrongly listed as R 181 a); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.535.26)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: judge; classical mythology
Associated names: Associated with: Apelles; Illustration to: Hans Sachs; Representation of: Midas
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0609.95

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