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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M1032
People
Hans Holbein the Younger, German (Augsburg, Germany 1497/98 - 1543 London, England)
Title
Title-border: Mucius Scaevola and Lars Porsena
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1518
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/258489

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Woodcut

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
W. 223, P. 91

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1920
Object Number
M1032
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Written on mat: Used as title page of Cleneae Platonici Christiani de immortalitate animae. Basel. Froben, 1516, in Utopia, 1518, in Erasmus, Encomium matrimoniae, Basel, 1518, also in many other works printed by Froben

Publication History

  • Deborah Carton, "The Practice of Hand-Coloring Prints in the Early Years of Printmaking Revealed by the Technical Examination of Two Hand-Colored Prints from the Fogg Collection" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2001), Unpublished, passim

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