Biblia (Bible)
1570
Artist, Swiss, 1539 - 1591
Artwork overview
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Medium
illustrated book with two parts in one volume (presentation copy probably for the dedicatee of this edition); 3 title pages printed in red and black within woodcut borders; 144 woodcuts all colored and heightened in gold and silver by an early hand;initials painted alternately in black, red, and blue and heightened in gold; 2 printed "Erklärung" slips at l4; contemporary red velvet over wooden boards with copper-gilt corner pieces on both covers and silver-gilt roundels and silver-gilt reliefplaque of the Crucifixion; similar clasps and catches; gauffered edges with birds and flowers; early notes of ownership on flyleaves
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall size (volume closed): 39.8 x 26 x 11 cm (15 11/16 x 10 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
page size: 38.1 x 24.4 cm (15 x 9 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2001.54.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 65
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estelle Doheny; (sale, Christie's New York, 1 February 1988, no. 351); (sale, Sotheby's London, 6 December 2000); Anonymous gift to NGA, 2001.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005
2007
The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008
Bibliography
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Jost Amman, Gero Seelig, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 65, book illustrations.