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Nuremberg Chronicle by Michel Wolgemut — VisualArtsDB

Nuremberg Chronicle

Nuremberg Chronicle

Michel Wolgemut

1493

Medium: Woodcut and letterpress in black, with brush and watercolor, pen and ink on ivory laid paper, in modern full alum-tawed pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on raised bands, with blind tooled lines in frame pattern, blind tooling and hand-lettered title on the spine, and hand-sewn linen headbands
Dimensions: 47 × 33 × 7 cm (18 9/16 × 13 × 2 13/16 in.)
Genre: book
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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