Albrecht Dürer und sein Zeitalter. - Ein Versuch von Dr. Adam Weise, Privatlehrer bei der Universität zu Halle. -

Adam Weise

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/186

Author

Imprint

Leipzig,: bei Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, 1819.

Physical Description

vi, 98 p., frontis. (port.); 252 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Frontis., t.p.] - Vorrede - [Text] - Gemälde von Albrecht Dürer [list]; Verbesserungen.

Responsibility Note

The frontispiece portrait is signed 'AD. 1503' and 'Nach dem Original Gemälde gezeichnet von A. Weise. gest. von A. Rosmaesler senior.' It carries the publisher's imprint, 'Leipzig bei I.F. Gleditsch.'

References

D. Eichberger and C. Zika, edd., Dürer and his culture (1998); J. Bialostocki, Dürer and his critics (1986).

Summary Note

The frontispiece shows a portrait of Dürer.

Provenance

The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil 'S.A.H', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.

Binding Note

19th-century mottled calf; rbacked and recornered in 1990, black morocco spine-label lettered 'Albrecht Dürer'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters - Draughtsmen - Engravers - Theorists - Germany - History - 16th century
Art history - Biography - Germany - 19th century

Contributors

Albrecht Dürer, source artist
Adam Weise, draughtsman
A. Rosmaesler, engraver
Johann Friedrich Gleditsch