print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1895,0420.142
Description: Loth and his daughters; seated at r; in left background the destruction of Sodom. Illustration to Hans Lufft's Low German Bible, printed in Wittenberg, 1541. Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Georg Lemberger; Printed by: Hans Lufft (Probably)
School/style
Production date: 1541 (Printed); 1532-1540
Production place: Printed in: Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt)
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress (On verso)
Dimensions: Height: 118 millimetres; Width: 141 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: BM also has an impression of the second state, numbered 59, instead of 58.II in Hollstein, see 1848,0304.7. See Curatorial Comment for 1848,0304.8.
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (58.I); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (II.366.22)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Sodom
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0420.142

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