Print, book-illustration, map (BM 1865,0114.1010 1)
Summary
Children playing with spheres on top of pillars; left and right margins of a text border printed from four blocks; top and bottom margin a reclining bishop (Johannes Tritemius) and a blank banderole, both by Hans Springinklee; on verso a map of Asia (by Holbein?); illustrations to Ptolemy, 'Geographia universalis', Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1545.
Woodcuts and letterpress
Date
1545
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain