GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
330 [German]
WOLGEMUT, Michael - Jacob and his sons presented by Jacob
to the Pharaoh. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1491.
2 woodcuts on recto and verso, 25,5 x 17, 8 cm, laid paper, unsigned (trimmed
just outside borderline). Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout. Very fine,
strong impression.
200 / 300 €
Folio 265 from the 1st Latin edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, the most
extensively illustrated book of the 15th c. The 2 editions (Latin and German)
were planned simultaneously, each with its own specially designed new type,
and both with the same woodcuts; the Latin ed. preceded the German by
about 5 months. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the
beginning of time to the early 1490s, written in Latin by the Nürnberg physician
and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514). The woodcut depicts a blessing
Christ as judge during the Last Judgement.
Ref. ISTC is00307000. - GW M40784. - Goff S-307. - Polain 3469. - A. Wilson,
The making of the Nuremberg Chronicle (1976). - C. Reske, Die Produktion der
Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg (2000).
332 [German]
2 woodcuts from the Exodus. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger,
1493.
2 ff, 8vo, contemp. hand-coloured woodcuts, laid paper, gothic lettering on verso.
Stuck under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
Michael Wohlgemut (1434-1519), who is now best known as Dürer’s teacher,
designed and probably also cut these woodcuts (fol. 18) for the edition of Stephan
Fridolin’s «Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichtümer des Heils», printed in 1491 by
Anton Koberger. The incunable is considered as one of the most beautiful early
print projects of the Nuremberg book industry. The book included many full-page
woodcuts by Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff and would be influential on the
development of Dürer’s linear woodcut style. The verso side of the woodcut depicts
the vision of Daniel. The folio is an original woodcut from the first edition of 1491.
Ref. ISTC is00306000. - GW 10329.- Polain(B) 1521.
331 [German]
WOLGEMUT, Michael - The Last Judgement. Nuremberg,
Anton Koberger, 1493.
Woodcut, 43,6 x 27,1 cm (folio), laid paper, Latin gothic lettertext on verso. Stuck
under passe-partout.
600 / 700 €
2 folios depicting Moses from the luxuriously illustrated bible published by
Schönsperger, first published in 1490.
Ref. GW 04306.
333 [German]
Various woodcuts, some hand-coloured. C. 1470-1520.
Various sizes and conditions.
200 / 250 €
I.a. Two folios (ff. 277 and 401) with seven hand-coloured woodcuts from the
1st ed. of the Hortus Sanitatis, publ. by Jacob Meydenbach in Mainz in 1491.
— Albrecht Dürer, «Von Danzen». Woodcut illustration to Sebastian Brant’s
Narrenschiff (ff. 75v), publ. in Basel in 1494. — 14 folios from Ludolphus de
Saxonia, Dit es d’ leven ons liefs heeren Jhesu Cristi, publ. in Antwerp by Henrick
Eckert between 1503 and 1524, illustrated with woodcuts. — 2 woodcuts from
the 1499 Strasburg edition of Terentius’ Comedies. — Folio 179v and 180r of
Vergilius’ Georgicorum, publ. in 1515 by Giunta with hand-coloured woodcuts
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