Biblia (Bible), 1570

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Medium

illustrated book with two parts in one volume (presentation copy probably for the dedicatee of this edition); 3 title pages printed in red and black within woodcut borders; 144 woodcuts all colored and heightened in gold and silver by an early hand;initials painted alternately in black, red, and blue and heightened in gold; 2 printed "Erklärung" slips at l4; contemporary red velvet over wooden boards with copper-gilt corner pieces on both covers and silver-gilt roundels and silver-gilt reliefplaque of the Crucifixion; similar clasps and catches; gauffered edges with birds and flowers; early notes of ownership on flyleaves

Dimensions

overall size (volume closed): 39.8 x 26 x 11 cm (15 11/16 x 10 1/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
page size: 38.1 x 24.4 cm (15 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 65

Accession Number

2001.54.1

Artists / Makers

Jost Amman (artist) Swiss, 1539 - 1591

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Provenance

Estelle Doheny; (sale, Christie's New York, 1 February 1988, no. 351); (sale, Sotheby's London, 6 December 2000); Anonymous gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Doheny, Estelle

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2007: The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Jost Amman, Gero Seelig, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 65, book illustrations.