Death sitting before a rich merchant

Details

• Title

  Death sitting before a rich merchant

• Artist/maker

  Anonymous German (printmaker)

  Albrecht Pfister (c. 1420 - 1470) (printer)

  Johannes von Tepl (c. 1350 - 1415) (author)

• Associated place

  Europe › Germany › Bavaria › Bamberg (place of publication)

• Date

  c. 1463

• Material and technique

  recto: woodcut hand-coloured in green, yellow, red on laid paper
  Verso: letterpress

• Object type

  visual representation › print;

  visual representation › book-illustration

• Dimensions

  image 22.2 x 13.8 cm (height x width)
  sheet 23.4 x 15.1 cm (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1863.1915

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