print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.522
- Title
- Object: L'Habito con il quale vanno i Medici per Roma...
- Description
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A broadside on the dress of a plague doctor in Rome; with a woodcut showing a man dressed in a long coat, wearing gloves, a flat, broad-rimmed hat, glasses, and a bird-like mask with a long beak, in the left hand he is holding a stick; with letterpress text in five lines along the bottom. (n.p.: [Rome, Perugia] 1656)
- Production date
- 1656
- Dimensions
-
Height: 312 millimetres (printed area)
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Height: 270 millimetres (woodcut)
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Width: 196 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 197 millimetres (woodcut)
- Curator's comments
- This woodcut broadside is apparently the original from which engraved copies were published in Germany by Paul Furst (see 1876,0510.512) and Gerhardt Altzenbach (in Yale, New Haven).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.522
