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Hartmann Schedel (author), Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Albrecht Dürer, Anonymous Artist, Anton Koberger (printer)

Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), 1493

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Medium

bound volume with letterpress text in Latin and 1,809 woodcuts with hand coloring printed from 645 different blocks on laid paper

Dimensions

page size: 43.9 x 30.6 cm (17 5/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
book: 46.5 x 33.2 x 8.5 cm (18 5/16 x 13 1/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dian Woodner

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, Book Illustrations, no. 9

Accession Number

2008.38.13

Artists / Makers

Hartmann Schedel (author) German, 1440 - 1514

Michael Wolgemut (artist) German, 1434 - 1519

Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (artist) German, c. 1458 - 1494

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Anonymous Artist (artist)

Anton Koberger (publisher) German, c. 1445 - 1513

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Inscription

stamped in gilt on spine: HISTORIAC / AETATUM / MUNDI

Provenance

John Moore Paget, [d. 1866], 1825; E. Peter Jones; Edward George Hibbert; (Sotheby's, London, April 1902). (F. Zisska & R. Kistner, Munich, July 5, 1985); Ian Woodner [1903 - 1990], New York; by inheritance to his daughter Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Woodner, Dian, Ms.

Exhibition History

2014: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475 - 1540, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2014 (not shown at NGA or Blanton venues and not in catalogue).

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge, 9.