Accession number
PML 126114.2
Creator
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536, illustrator.
Published
Zü Franckfurt : Bei Chri. Egenolffs Erben, M. D. LVII [1557].
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
VD16 attributes authorship to Artopoeus.
Published anonymously. Woodcuts by H. Weiditz, H.S. Beham, and one or more unknown artists. Wrongly attributed by Brunet to Hans Brosamer who was responsible for a different work with the same title published by H. Gulffericus ca. 1552. cf. Brit. Mus. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts. London, 1903-11, v. 2, p. 145, no. 20; v. 2, p. 384, no. 4, and Pauli, G. Han Sebald Beham. Strassburg, 1901, p. 492.
Series of woodcuts printed one to a page, with Latin captions above and German legends below each cut.
Published anonymously. Woodcuts by H. Weiditz, H.S. Beham, and one or more unknown artists. Wrongly attributed by Brunet to Hans Brosamer who was responsible for a different work with the same title published by H. Gulffericus ca. 1552. cf. Brit. Mus. Dept. of Prints and Drawings. Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts. London, 1903-11, v. 2, p. 145, no. 20; v. 2, p. 384, no. 4, and Pauli, G. Han Sebald Beham. Strassburg, 1901, p. 492.
Series of woodcuts printed one to a page, with Latin captions above and German legends below each cut.
Description
96 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), Fort Hill booklabel (front pastedown); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelfmark: SP104 (rear pastedown), bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Binding
19th-century northern German or Belgian brown calf with Annunciation and Nativity panel stamps.
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