Sebald Beham
The Impossibility
1548
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 81 x 52 mm. (3 3/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.3012
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower right, in plate "1549 / [monogram HSB]"; in image, center, in plate "IMPOSSIBILE"; in image, along upper right side of print, in plate "NIMENT VNDER STESICH GROSER DING / DIE IM ZV THVN VNMVGLISH SINDT". Verso: upper left in graphite "5"; upper right in graphite indecipherable; center in graphite "B 145"; lower left in graphite indecipherable; lower right in graphite diamond with "635"
Markings: CM: Claghorn; Garrett
