print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: 1895,0122.1077
Description: Title-border with poets, philosophers and historians of antiquity; half-length portraits with inscriptions arranged along colonnades, an enclosed garden as lower border; used as a title-border to Lodovico Ricchieri, 'Lectionem Antiquarum Libri XVI', Basel, J. Froben: 1517. Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: Print made by: Urs Graf; Printed by: Johann Froben
School/style
Production date: 1517
Production place: Printed in: Basel
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 273 millimetres; Width: 190 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: BM also has an impression of the same border used on the title-page to the third part of Erasmus, 'Adagiorum Chiliades Quatuor', Basel: Froben, 1518, see BM 1862,0517.1.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (169.341); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (Undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Illustration to: Lodovico Ricchieri; Representation of: Homer; Representation of: Solomon; Representation of: Hesiod; Representation of: Aristides; Representation of: Demosthenes; Representation of: Plato; Representation of: Aristotle; Representation of: Euripides; Representation of: Aristophanes; Representation of: Plutarch; Representation of: Lucian; Representation of: Theocritus; Representation of: Pindarus; Representation of: Cicero; Representation of: Virgil; Representation of: Horace; Representation of: Pliny the Elder; Representation of: Livy; Portrait of: Aulus Gellius; Representation of: Sallust
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0122.1077
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