print; map

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Object Type: print; map
Museum number: 1895,0122.779
Description: Terrestial map of the estern hemisphere/ the Stabius map of the world; the globe as a palnisphere surrounded by twelve winged wind heads; the arms of Cardinal Lang in upper left corner, the arms of Stabius at lower left; printed from two blocks; nineteenth-century impression. 1515 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1515
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 637 millimetres; Width: 858 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: BM has another nineteenth-century impression, see 1848,1111.8.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (261); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.308.126) (Cf.); Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (261); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (242); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (Undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: map/plan
Associated names: Associated with: Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg (Dedicated to); Associated with: Johann Stabius
Acquisition name: Donated by: William Mitchell
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0122.779

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