Page 257 from the Nuremberg Chronicle depicting the Great Lightning Strike in Istanbul (1490) and the Fall of a Meteorite in Alsace (1492)
Hartman Schedel, German, 1440 - 1514
1493
Hand colored woodcut on paper
Sheet: 16 × 11 in. (40.6 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Varujan Boghosian
2006.64
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Printed, in black ink, top center: der werlt [German text]/...Constantinopel...; inscribed, in graphite, along left edge, bottom to top: [illeg.] #2 [encircled]; verso: [German text]
Course History
GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022
History 3.01, Europe in the Age of Wonder, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin and Walter Simons, Winter 2023
Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023
Provenance
Varujan Boghosian, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2006.
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