print;
book-illustration(See Curatorial Comment)
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.297
- Description
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Pope Joan giving birth during a procession; the female pope surrounded by cardinals at right, the newborn child on the ground; at left the procession and a fool standing behind a column mocking the scene; illustration to an unidentified publication. 1539
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1539
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres (Sheet)
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Height: 78 millimetres
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Width: 142 millimetres
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Width: 180 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- First used as an illustration to Boccaccio, 'Opus de Claris Mulieribus', Bern: Biener, 1539.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- The invoice is for 419 prints; many were subsequently passed on to the Department of Printed Books, leaving 119 in the Department of Prints and Drawings
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.297
