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1520: Johann Grünenberg

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Source:

Title: ‘Von vormugen des ablas. Wider bruder Franciscus seyler Parfuser ordens’
Author: Andreas Karlstadt
Publisher: -
Printer: Johann Rhau-Grunenberg
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Wittenberg
Year: 1520
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [USTC].

Comments:

In 1520 also used in: ‘Biblia nova Alueldēsis.’ [Scan].

Falconer Madan (1895, page 227): ‘1520-22. In these three years at least, Johann Grünenberg, printer at Wittenberg, used a design by Lucas Cranach (stated to be one of his first experiments in book-illustration) which consists of a border for a small quarto title-page. In the centre of the lower part are I G conjoined, and in the right-hand lower corner is a representation of a press, affording no new or peculiar features. Both printer and inker are on the left hand, and the bar is straight. There is a handle and rackwork for running the form in and out.’

Curator British Museum: ‘Listed in Hollstein as Cranach workshop, by Koepplin and Falk as a work by Cranach the elder. The border was used in at least seven editions by Grunenberg from 1520-1525.’

Technique:

Woodcut

Publications

A.F. Butsch (1878) Bücherornamentik der Renaissance. Leipzig: G. Hirth. Plate 89.

D. Koepplin & T. Falk (1974) ‘Lucas Cranach: Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik,’ 2 vols, exhibition catalogus Kunstmuseum Basel, 1974, no. 217.

Falconer Madan (1895) ‘Early representations of the printing-Press with especial reference to that by Stradanus.’, Bibliographica. Volume 1, page 230. (Illustration #5).

Nigel Roche (2000) The iconography of the printing office to 1700. Unpublished MA thesis. Library and Information Studies, University College London. (Illustration #F).

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