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Wilhelm Pleydenwurff
Michael Wohlgemut
Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops, 1493
woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper
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Artist Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, German, 1494-1494
Artist Michael Wohlgemut, German, 1434-1519
Publisher Anton Koberger, German
Title
  • Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops
Date 1493
Medium woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (42.2 × 29.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass
Accession Number 45.87.B
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Provenance
purchased by Lillian Henkel Haas [1879-1960] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
The Nuremburg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken. New York, 1979.