book;
print
- Museum number
- 2008,7027.1
- Title
- Series: Small Passion
- Description
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The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, pourtrayed by Albert Durer. Edited by Henry Cole, an Assistant Keeper of the Public Records. Book bound in tooled green leather in imitation of a fifteenth-century German binding; containing stereotypes of the thirty-five blocks of the Small Passion by Dürer in the British Museum, with passages from the bible on the facing pages. London, 1844
- Production date
- 1844
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres (approx dimensions of book)
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Thickness: 15
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The preface is written by Henry Cole, in which he describes the process of making metal casts, or stereotypes from the original blocks, thirty-five of which had been in the British Museum since 1839 (see 1839,0608.3.17 through 52). There are two copies of the book in the British Library: 786.e.58 and 7854.dd.10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Passion of our Lord Jesus christ pourtrayed by Albert Durer
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2008,7027.1
