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Der schiffsherr – Der Kaufmann from Imagines de Morte

Hans Holbein The Younger and Hans Lützelburger

Der schiffsherr – Der Kaufmann from Imagines de Morte

1520-1541

Scroll

Der schiffsherr – Der Kaufmann from Imagines de Morte

1520-1541

Physical Qualities Woodcut, 64 × 51 mm. (2 1/2 × 2 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1946.120
First published with text in Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, avtant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées ..., Lyon, M. and G. Trechsel (for Jean and François Frellon), 1538. This impression believed to be from the first Latin edition, Lyon, 1542, Johann and Francois Frellon.
Purchased from Mr. Werther, Baltimore, 6/4/46

Artist

Hans Holbein The Younger

1496–1542

German, 1497-1543
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Block Cutter

Hans Lützelburger

1516–1525

German and Swiss, active 1517 - 1526
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