print;
book-illustration;
book
- Museum number
- 1900,0214.7.1-6
- Title
- Object: Das buch Granatapfel...
- Description
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A series of six woodcut illustrations by Hans Baldung, partly free after Hans Burgkmair, and various initials by anonymous artist, with German letterpress text of sermons by Johann Geiler, including "Der Trost Spiegel", bound in blind-stamped pigskin, published in Strasbourg, printed by Johann Knoblouch. 1511
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1511
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres (woodcut, average)
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Width: 138 millimetres (woodcut, average)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The woodcuts are free copies of those by Burgkmair, which illustrated the first publication of this book, published in Augsburg by Johann Otmar in 1510. (see Mende, p.59)
The woodcuts show the following subjects:
folio A1 verso: Christ with Martha Maria Magdalen (Mende 407)
folio H1 verso: Pharaoh's Army drowing in the Red Sea (Mende 406)
folio L1 verso: Saint Elizabeth (Mende 409), signed with initials
folio a1 verso: A cook, gutting a hare (Mende 408), signed with initials
folio f1 verso: The seven mortal sins (Mende 411)
folio h1 recto: The seven scabbards (Mende 410)
Ref:
M.C Oldenbourg, Die Buchholzschnitte des Hans Baldung Grien, Baden-Baden, 1962
Mende, Baldung, 406-411
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0214.7.1-6