Print, book-illustration, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1517

Title-page border with children in a triumphal cortège; in upper strip two sphinxes holding a medaillon; on either side, climbing children in festoons; first used in: micaele ricci, de regibus francorum libri iii (. . ), basel, j. Froben, july 1517 (4°); this impression is used on page 273 (beginning of erasmus' epigrammata) to thomas morus, de optimo reip. Statu deque nova insula vtopia (. . ), basel, j. Froben, november 1518 (4°). 1517 woodcut and letterpress. Date: 1517. Dimensions: Height: 180 mm (borderlines); ; Width: 120 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Print, book-illustration (BM 1862,0517.10)