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Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops

Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops, 1493

Anton Koberger, German
Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, German, 1494-1494
Michael Wolgemut, German, 1434-1519

Woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper

Sheet: 16 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (42.2 × 29.8 cm)

Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass

45.87.B

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Bishops (prelates)

Letterpress printing

Woodcut (process)

Figures (representations)

Woodcut (print)

purchased by Lillian Henkel Haas [1879-1960] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1945-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Nuremburg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedel's Buch der Chroniken. New York, 1979.

Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; Michael Wolgemut, Nine Portraits of Philosophers and Bishops, 1493, woodcut and letterpress in black, colored by hand on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass, 45.87.B.