Lucas Cranachs Leben und Werke von Joseph Heller.

Joseph Heller

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/183

Author

Imprint

Bamberg: bey Carl Friedrich Kunz., 1821.

Physical Description

[iii-]xvi, [2], 532 p., engr. t.pl., fold. genealogical table, [1] pl.; 200 mm. (Octavo.)

Contents

[Title-plate] - Vorrede - Vorbericht des Verfassers - Inhalts-Anzeige - [Text, with table and plate]

Responsibility Note

The title-plate is signed as engraved by R. Dreykorn.

Summary Note

The work is in two parts: 'Erster Theil. Cranachs Leben'; 'Zweiter Theil. Cranachs Werke'.

The plate, facing p. 470, is captioned, 'Facsimile der Handschrift Lucas Cranachs ...'.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the bookseller's printed ticket, reading 'J.D. Haas, Foreign Library, 11, Berners-street, Oxford-street.' The front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr A.W. Callcott.'

Binding Note

19th-century blue cloth; white paper spine-label inscribed in ink, 'Lucas Cranachs Leben & Werke v. Heller'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters - Engravers - Artists - Austria - Vienna - Germany - Wittenberg - History - 16th century
Art history - Biography - Catalogues - Germany - 19th century

Contributors

Carl Friedrich Kunz, publisher
R. Dreykorn, engraver
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor
J. D. Haas, bookseller, previous owner