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print; book-illustration; title-page

Object Type: print; book-illustration; title-page
Museum number: 1895,0122.1075
Description: Title-page border with four separate strips, with Greek and Roman philosophers, writers and the coronation of Homer; at the top-centre the bust of Solomon, flanked by two philosophers on either side; the horizontal strips are divided into five compartments, each containing two scholars; in the lower section Homer is being crowned at a well by Calliope, the remaining eight muses stand on either side; taken from Strabo, Geographicorum comentarii ..., Basel, V. Curio, March 1523 (2°). 1523 Metalcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Hans Holbein the Younger; Block cut by: Jacob Faber; Published by: Valentin Curio
School/style
Production date: 1523
Materials
Technique: metalcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 279 millimetres (borderlines); Width: 189 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Cut by Faber after a design by Holbein. Two impressions from other editions are also extant at the BM. See F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, exh. cat. Basel 1984, no. 419. C. Müller: Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, exh. cat. 1997, no. 45.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects: philosopher; scholar; classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Solomon; Representation of: Homer; Representation of: Muses; Representation of: Socrates; Representation of: Pythagoras; Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Plato; Representation of: Demosthenes; Representation of: Plutarch; Representation of: Cicero; Representation of: Pliny the Elder; Representation of: Sallust; Representation of: Hesiod; Representation of: Euripides; Representation of: Ovid; Representation of: Lucretius; Representation of: Pindarus; Representation of: Theocritus; Representation of: Aristophanes; Representation of: Virgil; Representation of: Horace; Representation of: Quintilian; Representation of: Aristides; Representation of: Lucian; Representation of: Livy; Representation of: Aulus Gellius
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0122.1075