The Mathematician, Jan Stoefler of Tubingen, between 1500 and 1543

  • Hans Holbein the Younger, German, 1497-1543

Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Image: 4 1/2 × 3 7/8 inches (11.4 × 9.8 cm) Sheet: 5 5/8 × 4 7/8 inches (14.3 × 12.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S595

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, in letterpress above the image: EFFIGES 10. STOEFLERIAN. | norum LXXIX. Inscribed, on verso: [text in Latin]

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Passavant, J. D. Le Peintre-Graveur, vol. 3. Leipzig, 1862, p. 392, no. 61.

Hans Holbein the Younger, The Mathematician, Jan Stoefler of Tubingen, between 1500 and 1543, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S595.