print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1926,0617.13.1
- Description
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Elisha and the Shunammite's Son; the deceased son in an interior in the background, and the resurrected son in the foreground presented by Elisha with the Shunammite woman gesticulating in surprise, accompanied by German biblical verse to Genesis 18 in letterpress; printed to face the antetype of the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin; illustration to Peter Perenyi and Augustin Hirschvogel, 'Vorredt und eingang der Concordantzen alt und news Testaments, durch Pereny Petri... Und nachuolgents durch Augustin Hirßfogel... erweytert' (Vienna, Aegidius Adler: 1550). 1547
Etching and letterpress
- Production date
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1547
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1550 (published)
- Dimensions
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Height: 310 millimetres (approx sheet size)
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Height: 115 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 195 millimetres (approx sheet size)
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Width: 144 millimetres (sheet)
- Curator's comments
- Bound in the second edition of the complete book with original embossed binding with evangelist portraits, and two-page preface, 56 pages with 104 etchings.
Two etchings to a page with German letterpress above and below with relevant biblical passages; see 1926,0617.13.1-104 for the book. For the antetype facing this print, see 1926,0617.13.3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: "Vorredt und eingang der Concordantzen alt und news Testaments, Durch Pereny Petri... Und nachuolgents durch Augustin Hirßfogel... erweytert"
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1926,0617.13.1