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Alberti Dureri Noriberg. German. Icones sacrae : in historiam salutis humanae per redemptorem nostrum Iesum Christum Dei & Mariae filium instauratae, quae singulas selectissimi flores ex verbo Dei & s. patrum scriptis decerpti exornant.

Accession number
PML 126229
Creator
Altdorfer, Albrecht, approximately 1480-1538, engraver.
Published
[Hamburg : G.L. Frobenius], 1604.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Dedication signed "G.L. Frobenivus, Iphoviens. Fr. Bibliop. Hamb."--A2v.
Contains 38 of the 40 cuts from Altdorfer's suite The fall and redemption of man (ca. 1515), arranged partly in the wrong order. Frobenius published the woodcuts under Dürer's name, although they are clearly signed with Altdorfer's monogram.--Cf. Dodgson. Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts, II, p. 221.
Signatures: A-K⁴ L².
Description
[84] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Full calf with gilt stamping on spine.
Classification
Department