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View of Jerusalem, Liber Chronicarum, print, book illustration, pastedown, View of the city of Jerusalem. On the left the Temple of Solomon., printmaker: workshop of Michel Wolgemut, Nuremberg, printmaker: workshop of Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, 1493, Bavaria, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, woodcut pasted onto album page, verso with woodcut, height 142 mm x width 223 mm, The woodcut is repeatedly used as a book illustration in the Liber Chronicarum (or Nuremberg Chronicle) by Hartmann Schedel, published in Latin and German in 1493. See the Latin edition, folio 48r., city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, Jerusalem, A black and white line drawing of a walled architectural complex on a hilly landscape showing various buildings with domes, towers, stairways, archways, and terraces, with stylized trees on the surrounding hills; one prominent building has a large rounded onion-shaped dome atop a square base with rectangular and arched windows, nearby is a tall narrow tower with a platform and hanging lamps, stepped terraces and large staircases lead between different levels, smaller domed structures and square towers occupy the courtyards, tiny human figures appear on the terraces and near entrances, and the foreground shows patterned foliage and a person kneeling beside a recessed rectangular area.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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