book;
print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.4984
- Description
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Hans Sachs, "Nachred das grewlich laster" (Nuremberg, Wolfgang Resch) c. 1532; containing an emblematic woodcut by Georg Pencz printed on the titlepage, showing a blindfolded, winged woman in the foreground at right, holding a chalice, with a flaming ball attached with a rope to her right ankle. Behind her, beneath a tree at left, a seated man is approached by a figure wearing a tabard with the double-headed eagle, crowned with laurels and holding a staff in his right hand. Bound with five pages of letterpress verse.
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1532
- Dimensions
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Height: 197 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Height: 136 millimetres (titlepage woodcut)
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Width: 143 millimetres
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Width: 150 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Colophon: Wolffgang Formschneider
For the woodcut, see Heinrich Röttinger, "Die Holzschnitte des Georg Pencz", Leipzig 1914, no. 12. For an impression taken from the block when in the Derschau collection, published by R.Z. Becker, 1821, see 1882,0311.1242.16.+
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Nachred das grewlich laster
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.4984
