print;
book-illustration;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1900,1019.168
- Description
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Title-illustration with King Ludwig IV of Bavaria; sitting on a throne, turned r, outside of Rome and accompanied by several soldiers; below the title to Marsilius Patavinus ( Marsilius of Padua), Opus insignium cui titulum fecit autor Defesorum pacis ... ad Ludovicum Caesarem ..., Basel, V. Curio, 1522 (2°); with ornamental borders from four blocks at the upper left and right margins and at top (not by Holbein). 1522
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1522
- Dimensions
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Height: 244 millimetres (page)
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Height: 142 millimetres (subject, slightly trimmed)
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cut by Faber after a design by Holbein.
According to Hollstein, the ornamental borders are probably by Franz Gerster.
See F. Hieronymus, Basler Buchillustration 1500 bis 1545, exh. cat. Basel 1984, no. 417.
C. Müller: Hans Holbein d. J. Die Druckgraphik im Kupferstichkabinett Basel, exh. cat. 1997, no. 90.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,1019.168
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Harley 5939.367 (British Library MSS number)