Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

Michel Wolgemut

1493, portfolio assembled 1929

Accession Number

129322

Medium

Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso), on buff laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat

Dimensions

42.7 × 30 cm (16 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Classification

woodcut

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund

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