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The Tree of Jesse, from a book of hours

A work made of metalcut and letterpress, with hand-coloring, on parchment.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of metalcut and letterpress, with hand-coloring, on parchment.

Date:

1505/10

Artist:

Thielmann Kerver
German, flourished 1497-1524

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Thielmann Kerver

Title

The Tree of Jesse, from a book of hours

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1505–1510

Medium

Metalcut and letterpress, with hand-coloring, on parchment

Dimensions

15 × 9.1 cm (5 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund and Henry J. Willing Fund

Reference Number

1936.25

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