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Currently not on display

Master N. H. (Nikolaus Hogenberg)

The Battle of Naked Men and Peasants

Date 1522
Materials and Techniques woodcut on paper
Size(cm) 14.8 x 29.6
State 1st state? (i/ii)
Standard ref. B. 13, p. 332; Bruillot I. 2439; Negler Mon. III. 1292, IV. 2408; Passavant III, 442/43. 2; Rumohr (Holbein) 97; Dodgeson (1911) II. 196-197, 200-01; Geisberg 954; Winkler (1964) p. 54ff. (ill.); Holl. (German) XIII A, p. 281
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2007-0004

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2007.

Exhibition History

2011
Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 26
2011
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 26

Bibliography

1989
Parshall, Peter; College, Reed. Reading the Renaissance Woodcut: The Odd Case of the Master N.H. & Hans Lützelburger. The Register of the Spencer Museum of Art. vol. 6, no. 6, 1989, pp. 30-43.
1994
Landau, David; Parshall, Peter. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550. New Haven, Yale University, 1994, p. 212ff, repr.
2009
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 42 (Apr. 2007-Mar. 2008), 2009, List of New Acquisitions. p. 58.

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