book; print; bookplate

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Object Type: book; print; bookplate
Museum number: 1982,U.4506
Description: '[Vitae XII Caesarum] Ex Recognitione Des. Erasmi...'; book by Suetonius Tranquillus (Caius) printed in Cologne in 1527, with a woodcut bookplate attributed to Sebald Beham, depicting the coat of arms of Hector Pömer, underneath an arch of tree branches, a shield surmounted by a helmet and a bust of a man, in the top left corner a shield of the Pömer family, on the top right that of the Rummel family, bottom left the Schmidmayer family, and bottom right the Bergmeister family; on the left side of the central shield a full-size figure of St Laurence holding an grid-iron, at the bottom four lines inscription in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. 1525 Woodcut
Producer name: Attributed to: Sebald Beham; Formerly attributed to: Albrecht Dürer
School/style
Production date: 1525
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 300 millimetres; Width: 198 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The title-page woodcut is signed A W (Anton Woensam) The book is bound in blindstamped calf and has a ownership stamp of Dr. F A Eckstein.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (unrecorded); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.169.163); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.365.41) (cf); Paisey 2002 / Catalogue of German printed books to 1900 (371); O'Dell 2003 / Deutsche und österreichische Exlibris 1500-1599 im Britischen Museum (304); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.A27)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Desiderius Erasmus; Associated with: Hector I Pömer; Representation of: St Laurence
Acquisition date: 1753-1982
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1982,U.4506

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