book;
print
- Museum number
- 1896,0125.1.4
- Title
- Series: Small Passion
- Description
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Fifth plate from the complete, bound series of 37 woodcuts with Latin text, printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; Nativity, with the Infant Christ in the centre, on the left the Virgin and Joseph, who carries a lantern, two shepherds on the right, and letterpress on the verso. c.1510
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1510
- Dimensions
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Height: 129 millimetres
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the fifth plate from a complete copy of the series printed by Hieronymus Höltzel, Nuremberg, 1511, here bound as a book. The book consists of a title-page and 36 illustrations, all with letterpress text on the verso, and a final page with impressum and colophon on the recto.
For further information, also on the woodblocks, see Meder 125 (1896-1-25-1-37).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer...effigiata cu[m]...carmi nibus...Benedicti Chelidonij...
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0125.1.4
