a chalice with a man pointing to a passage in a book. The text identifies him as a Church Father Clement of Alexandria. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker Michel Wolgemut (studio) printmaker: Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop) Place manufacture: Nuremberg Date: 1493 Physical features: woodcut pasted on album leaf; text printing; verso with text printing material: paper Technique: letterpress / woodcut / paste dimensions: print: h 74 mm × W 57 mmToelichtingDe woodcut is used frequently as a book illustration in the Liber Chronicarum (or Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel
a chalice with a man pointing to a passage in a book. The text identifies him as a Church Father Clement of Alexandria. The print is part of a album. Manufacturer : printmaker Michel Wolgemut (studio) printmaker: Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (workshop) Place manufacture: Nuremberg Date: 1493 Physical features: woodcut pasted on album leaf; text printing; verso with text printing material: paper Technique: letterpress / woodcut / paste dimensions: print: h 74 mm × W 57 mmToelichtingDe woodcut is used frequently as a book illustration in the Liber Chronicarum (or Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel, published in Latin and German in 1493 . See the Latin edition, folio 115v.
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