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title-page
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
Swiss
Production date
1517
Production place
Printed in:
Basel
Materials
paper
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
Associated Title:
Lectionum antiquarum
(Basel 1517)
Acquisition name
Donated by:
William Mitchell
Acquisition date
1895
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1895,0122.1077
Conservation
Treatment
: 03 Mar 2006