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Michel Wolgemut

Geneva from Schedel Weltchronik (Schedel’s World History), Plate 22 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

1493, portfolio assembled 1929
Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black with rubrication (recto and verso), on buff laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat
42.7 × 30 cm (16.8 × 11.8 in)

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