Colophon, from the Large Passion

Description

This colophon was typically printed on the verso of The Ressurection, the final image in the Passion series, giving the date, Dürer’s name, and a long-winded copyright warning placing the images under the protection of the Emperor Maximilian. However, this impression of the colophon from the 1911 edition is without the woodcut on the other side. The fact that this page of printer’s waste survived is remarkable, even considering the fame of Dürer’s woodcuts.

Colophon, from the Large Passion

Albrecht Dürer

1511

Accession Number

210828

Medium

Letterpress in black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

45.2 × 31 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

Classification

letterpress

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection