book;
print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.644
- Title
- Series: Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Fourth plate from the series of 20 woodcuts printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; in the right foreground St Joachim and St Anne embracing each other underneath the Golden Gate, with Latin letterpress text on the verso. c.1504
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1504
- Dimensions
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Height: 297 millimetres
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Width: 207 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the fourth plate from an edition printed by Hieronymus Höltzel, Nuremberg, 1511. It consists of a title-page and 19 illustrations, all but the last with Latin text in antiqua letterpress on the verso. This copy is bound together with the 'Large Passion' series (1895,0122.607 through 618) and the second Latin edition of the 'Apocalypse' series (1895,0122.580 through 595). For further information see 1895,0122.641 (Meder 188).
A remarkably close copy of this woodcut, on paper with an eighteenth- century J. Honig & Zoon watermark, came in for an opinion 7 May, 2004 (scan in GB's holding area).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Epitome In Divae Parthenices Mariae Historiam Ab Alberto Durero...
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0122.644
