Identification title(s): thucydides. Thucydides hystericus (title on object). Liber chronicarum (series title). Object type: picture book illustration album page object number: rp-p-2016-49-19-18. Inscriptions / brands: inscription, top right, written with pen: '176'. Description: a calyx with a man, facing right. The text identifies him as thucydides, greek historian. The print is part of an album. Manufacture. Manufacturer: printmaker: michel wolgemut (studio of), printmaker: wilhelm pleydenwurff (studio of). Place of manufacture: nuremberg. Dating: 1493. Physical features: woodcut pasted on album page; letterpress text; verso with letterpress text. Material: paper technique: letterpress / woodcut / pasting. Dimensions: print: h 67 mm × w 45 mm explanation the woodcut is used as a book illustration in the liber chronicarum (or nuremberg chronicle) by hartmann schedel, published in latin and german in 1493. See the latin edition, folio 73r. Topic: what: male figures from classical history. Who: thucydides. Acquisition: unknown 1874. Date: 1493.
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