Annunciation, from a book of hours

Prints and Drawings

1505/10

Thielmann Kerver
German, active 1497-1524

This leaf comes from a prayer book published in Paris in the early 1500s. Thielmann Kerver often incorporated elements from the illuminated manuscript tradition. Here, for example, he combined expensive vellum, lavish illustrations, and hand-colored initials with the newer technology of printing. While the words were printed with moveable type, the central images and composite borders were printed from separate carved blocks, or matrices, that could be arranged in different groupings and reused for future editions.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Thielmann Kerver
Title: Annunciation, from a book of hours
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1505–1510
Medium: Metalcut and letterpress, with hand-coloring, on parchment
Dimensions: 15.3 × 9.1 cm (6 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Henry J. Willing Collection
Reference Number: 1936.24
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