Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle)

1493

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

Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dian Woodner

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2008.38.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, Book Illustrations, no. 9

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Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

stamped in gilt on spine: HISTORIAC / AETATUM / MUNDI

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