book;
print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.660
- Title
- Series: Life of the Virgin
- Description
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Twentieth plate from the series of 20 woodcuts printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; in an architectural space, the seated Virgin surrounded by various saints and angels, among them St Catherine, St Jerome, St Anthony, and John the Baptist, in the foreground putti chasing a hare and holding empty escutcheons, underneath 13 lines of Latin text and address. c.1502
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1502
- Dimensions
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Height: 370 millimetres (woodcut and text)
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Height: 298 millimetres (woodcut)
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the twentieth and last 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 plate 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
- 1895,0122.660
