book;
print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1904,0206.41
- Title
- Object: Passional Christi und Antichristi
- Description
-
A set of 26 woodcuts after Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, juxtaposing episodes of the Life of Christ with those of the Antichrist, who is identified with the Pope, each woodcut accompanied by a title and short letterpress text by Martin Luther, the title page with a woodcut border; printed in Erfurt, by Matthes Maler. 1521
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1521
- Dimensions
-
Height: 119 millimetres (woodcut, average)
-
Width: 94 millimetres (woodcut, average)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- With 19th century book-plate engraving by A Descaves after H Catenacci with motto 'Quaero' and, according to Paisey, with initials "JJC". The book-plate has been identified as that of J.E. Capson. (see www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100295/1.html).
Ref:
Benzing 1020
cf Koepplin and Falk, 218
cf Groll, 25-6
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2002 May-Sep, Karlsruhe, Zentrum für Kunst, Iconoclash...
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0206.41
