Der Weiss König
Artist
Leonhard Beck
German, Augsburg, circa 1480–1542
Date1517
MediumWoodcut
Dimensions14 1/8 x 9 3/4 in. (35.9 x 24.8 cm)
ClassificationsBook Arts
Credit LineReby Lewis Purchase Fund
Object numberG.62.9.13
On View
Not on view"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 63.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Early Book Art,” May 1962, then traveling, cat. no. 29.
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Theodore de Bry
circa 1587
![Leaf from Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi (Latin: Vita Christi) by Ludolph of Saxony (d. 1378): “Of that message from the angel and how Mary received that blessing from God” [Ch. 5]; Imprint: Printed in Antwerp by Claes Leeu on November 20, 1488](/internal/media/dispatcher/15503/thumbnail)
![Woodcut title page from Von Menschenlehre zu meiden (Avoiding the Doctrines of Men) by Martin Luther (d. 1546) [fol. 1r-v]; Imprint: Printed in Wittenberg by Johann Rhau-Grunenberg, 1522](/internal/media/dispatcher/8268/thumbnail)
Johann Rhau-Grunenberg
Published in 1522; woodcut created in 1520
Sebastian Brandt
June 1, 1497
