Nuremberg Chronicle

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Artist

Michel Wolgemut

Title

Nuremberg Chronicle

Place

Nuremberg (Object made in:)

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1493

Medium

Woodcut and letterpress in black, with brush and watercolor, pen and ink on ivory laid paper, in modern full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on raised bands, with blind tooled lines in frame pattern, blind tooling and hand-lettered title on the spine, and hand-sewn linen headbands

Edition

First issue, first edition

Dimensions

47 × 33 × 7 cm (18 9/16 × 13 × 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Sarah E. Raymond Fitzwilliam

Reference Number

2024.55

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