book;
print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.656
- Title
- Series: Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Sixteenth plate from the series of 20 woodcuts printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; within a temple, the twelve-year-old Christ sitting on a raised podium, interpreting the scriptures, with various rabbis listening to him, on the left the Virgin, searching for Jesus Christ, entering the chamber, with Latin text in letterpress on verso. c.1503
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1503
- 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 sixteenth plate from a complete copy of the series 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 (1895-1-22-607 to 618) and the second Latin edition of the 'Apocalypse' series (1895-1-22-580 to 595). For further information see 1895-1-22-641 (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
- 1895,0122.656
