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Book-Plate of Scheurl and Tucher
Lucas Cranach the ElderLinkedCulture matchlcp-a38e74af5bec
- Date
- c. 1510
- Medium
- Woodcut in black hand colored with brush and watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper
- Culture
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 88902
Christoph Scheurl, a University of Wittenberg professor, owned two bookplates with his parents’ arms and the same motto, including this one on which Lucas Cranach’s shield-bearer is fashionably clothed and colored. The earliest book to contain this ex libris is a classical text printed by Wolfgang Stöckel in 1511, suggesting the woodcut dates to around 1510, before Scheurl moved back to Nuremberg. The Chicago impression is tattered around the edges, has sustained fading and loss of printed pigment throughout, and exhibits several areas of worm activity. These early wear patterns suggest it was on an interior book board, confirming its likely use as a bookplate.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Joseph Adams
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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