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Print

  • Place of origin:

    Basel (made)

  • Date:

    1531-1545 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Bebelius, Johannes (printer)
    Cratander, Andreas (printer)
    Holbein, Hans II the younger, born 1497 - died 1543 (artist)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    woodcut printed on paper

  • Museum number:

    E.10284-1921

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case JENNINGS, shelf 16

Physical description

Print, the Greek letter sigma. Woodcut mounted on card with letters arranged in alphabetical order.

Place of Origin

Basel (made)

Date

1531-1545 (made)

Artist/maker

Bebelius, Johannes (printer)
Cratander, Andreas (printer)
Holbein, Hans II the younger, born 1497 - died 1543 (artist)

Materials and Techniques

woodcut printed on paper

Dimensions

Height: 380 mm mount size, Width: 266 mm

Descriptive line

Print, the Greek letter sigma, woodcut designed by Hans Holbein and printed by Johannes Bebelius and Andreas Cratander, Basel, 1531-45, from the Jennings Collection of alphabets, initial letters and title-pages from the 15th and 16th centuries

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Jennings, Oscar. Early woodcut initials; containing over thirteen hundred reproductions of ornamental letters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, selected and annotated by Oscar Jennings. London : Methuen and Co., 1908.

Materials

Paper

Techniques

Woodcut

Categories

Prints

Collection

Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection

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