print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: E,2.268
Description: Title-page of part III of Luther's Old Testament, printed by F.Peypus, Nuremberg, 1524; the woodcut with Christ on the cross in the centre, flanked by the Virgin on the left and St John on the right; surrounded on three sides with a decorative border of angels; on the verso register in letterpress. 1516 Woodcut and letterpress
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Production date: 1516
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Dimensions: Height: 278 millimetres; Width: 222 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (183.2.b); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.124.56); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.333.138) (cf, second edition); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (III.271.2b)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: St John the Evangelist
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
Acquisition date: 1834
Acquisition notes: Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,2.268

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