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

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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

German 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2024

Provenance

Varujan Boghosian, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2006.

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