print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1933,0411.3
Description: Scenes from the life of the Virgin; set in the shape of an altarpiece. In the top panel Christ and the crowned Virgin surrounded by angels and prophets. In place of the main panel nine square fields, from top left to bottom right: Presentation in the Temple, Betrothal, Simeon in the Temple, Birth of the Virgin, Annunciation, Christ among the Doctors, Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate, Visitation and Deposition. On the predella from left to right: the Magi, Nativity and Circumcision. From Hieronymus Dungersheim, 'Aliqua opuscula ...', Leipzig: Valentin Schumann, 1531. Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Sebald Beham; Formerly attributed to: Albrecht Dürer; Printed by: Valentin Schumann
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Production date: 1531
Production place: Printed in: Leipzig
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Dimensions: Height: 186 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 130 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Used altogether three times throughout the book. For the second version without the predella see 1927,1001.1.
Bibliographic references: Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte (885); Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (885); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.460) (Reproduction); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.175.9) (as Dürer)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: life of virgin; new testament
Associated names: Illustration to: Hieronymus Dungersheim von Ochsenfurt; Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: St Joachim; Representation of: St Anne; Representation of: St Elizabeth; Representation of: Holy Family; Representation of: Simeon; Representation of: Magi
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Acquisition date: 1933
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1933,0411.3

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