print;
book-illustration;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1972,U.1121
- Description
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Four ornamental panels enclosing the arms of Christophorus Bruno; the panels from four separate blocks, the oblong panels with vases and masks at top and playing putti at bottom; the upright panels with musical instruments at left and playing putti at right; the crest and escutcheon with a phoenix to left; illustration to Giovanni Boccaccio, 'Die gantz Römisch histori ', Augsburg: Steiner, 1542.
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1542
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Only the border by Weiditz, the arms by an unidentified artist. This presentation implies the print was used as a bookplate. See O'Dell for earlier literature; also P.Youatt (ed) 'Introduction to Deutsche und Oesterreichische Exlibris 1500-1599' in The Bookplate Journal, Vol 11, no. 2, 2013, p. 95 and fig. 15.
See Curatorial Comment for 1972,U.1120.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Die gantz Römisch histori (Augsburg 1542)
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1972
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.1121