WOHLGEMUTH MICHAEL - SCHEDEL HARTMANN
Tercia etas mundi Foliū XXXIIII. Corinthus e Tyberias
Date: Nuremberg,Koberger,1493
Corintus, Tyberiades
Cod 2356
Subject: Corintus, Tyberiades
320,00 €
Woodcut, mm 145x225, sheet mm 440x290. Very good condition. Illustration shows Corinthus with Tyberias.The engraving comes from the Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle, woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut and Albrecht Dürer, printed by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg, 1493.
The Nuremberg Chronicle was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts the most picturesque work of the early time of printing. It became one of the most popular book of the 15th. century. Latin edition. Walter L. Strauss - Woodcuts and woodblocks (New York: Abaris book, 1980). Drawn by Michael Wohlgemut. Engraved by Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Good copy
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