The Head of a Clergyman: enlarged Drawing from Lützelburger's Woodcut of 'The Clergyman', from the Series of 'Images of Death'

Details

• Title

  The Head of a Clergyman: enlarged Drawing from Lützelburger's Woodcut of 'The Clergyman', from the Series of 'Images of Death'

• Artist/maker

  Hans Lützelburger (c. 1495 - 1526) (block cutter)

  John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

  after Hans Holbein the Younger ("Holbein") (1497 or 1498 - 1543) (designer)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1524 - 1525
  rule of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1900)

• Material and technique

  ink and brush over graphite on wove paper

• Object type

  visual representation › drawing

• Dimensions

  mount 27.9 x 30.6 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875.

• Museum location

  Western Art Print Room

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA.RS.ED.227

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