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
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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
- Production date
-
1578-1590
-
1534
- Dimensions
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Height: 213 millimetres (Borderline)
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Height: 385 millimetres (Sheet size)
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Width: 360 millimetres (Per sheet, c.)
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Width: 368 millimetres (Per sheet, c.)
- $Inscriptions
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- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0609.95
