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Sebald Beham's Fountain Of Youth-Bathhouse Woodcut: Popular Entertainment And Large Prints By The Little Masters, Alison G. Stewart
Sebald Beham's Fountain Of Youth-Bathhouse Woodcut: Popular Entertainment And Large Prints By The Little Masters, Alison G. Stewart
School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity
Sebald Beham designed a woodcut representing a Fountain of Youth-Bathhouse that has been convincingly dated based on copies to the years ca. 1530-31, when Sebald first used the monogram HSB printed at the center of the print. This date is corroborated by the only known dated impression, which also has a text (Oxford, the Ashmolean Museum); the date 1531 and the name of the publisher, Albrecht Glockendon, are printed at the end of the text below the print (Fig. 1). The woodcut is large. It was printed onto four sheets of full-size paper and measures over one foot high by …