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Image: A Fool Before and After (Ein Narr Ist…Als Eine Gan Geflogen Aus / Und Kommt mit Gagnack Weider Nack Haus)

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A Fool Before and After (Ein Narr Ist…Als Eine Gan Geflogen Aus / Und Kommt mit Gagnack Weider Nack Haus)

1494
15th century
115 x 85 mm (4.5 x 3.3 in.)

Albrecht Dürer, German, (1471–1528)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Woodcut and type (recto); type (verso) on laid paper
Print impression quality: Good
Series: from Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff)
Edition: From Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), published in Basel by Bergmann von Olpe
Marks: Watermark: No watermark
Bibliography: Schreiber, Woodcuts from Books (1929), no. 27; Schreiber Manuel, V.
Credit Line: Olin Library transfer, 1957
Accession Number: 1996.1.5

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This object has the following keywords:
  • allegory
  • animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
  • swine

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  • image Dimensions: 115 x 85 mm (4.5 x 3.3 in.)

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