book;
print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.654
- Title
- Series: Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Fourteenth plate from the series of 20 woodcuts printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; showing the Flight into Egypt, within a dense wood, the Virgin and Child on a donkey, St Joseph on foot; on the left a date palm tree and a stag, on the top right a cloud with 15 angels, with Latin text in letterpress on verso. c.1504
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1504
- Dimensions
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Height: 300 millimetres
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Width: 209 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the fourteenth plate from the 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; bound together with the 'Large Passion' (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).
- 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
- 1895,0122.654
