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print, book-illustration   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Attributed to: Hans Schäufelein
Title
print, book-illustration
Description
English: Fifteen characters from a play; whole-length standing male and female figures in various poses.
Woodcuts
Date between 1500 and 1520
date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1520-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions Height: 99 millimetres (c. per sheet) Width: 83 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1927,0614.69-83
Notes

The BM register describes the set as costume prints. This is unlikely, as the costumes contain little detail. The poses adopted by the figures, as well as the props some of them are holding (such as the set of keys in E,8.82) suggests that these are more likely to be illustrations to a play or tale. This is confirmed by letterpress text on the verso of some of the cuttings, which contains German verse of a satirical and moralizing nature. None of the characters are named in the text, and from the existing fragments it has not been possible to identify the play.

Note that the attribution to Schäufelein is doubtful.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1927-0614-69-83
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