print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1926,0617.13.54
- Description
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Moses and the burning bush; Moses at right, holding snake, God at left appears over burning bush; accompanied by German biblical verse to Exodus 4 in letterpress; printed to face the antetype of the building of the Cross; 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). 1548
Etching and letterpress
- Production date
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1550 (published)
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1548
- 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 1926,0617.13.56.
- 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
- 1926,0617.13.54
