Temperance (Die Mesikait), from The Seven Virtues, in Holzschnitte alter Meister gedruckt von den Originalstöcken der Sammlung Derschau im besitz des Staatlichen Kupferstich-kabinetts zu Berlin

Hans Burgkmair|Max J. Friedländer|Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin|E. A. Seemann

Printed 1922 · Woodcut; restrike of third state of three (Hollstein); Dershau restrike, 1922 · Drawings and Prints

Temperance (Die Mesikait), from The Seven Virtues, in Holzschnitte alter Meister gedruckt von den Originalstöcken der Sammlung Derschau im besitz des Staatlichen Kupferstich-kabinetts zu Berlin — Hans Burgkmair|Max J. Friedländer|Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin|E. A. Seemann

From the 1922 publication in four volumes by Max Friedlander with impressions from wood blocks previously in the collection of Baron Hans Albrecht von Derschau. Derschau is said to have discovered hundreds of original wood blocks by German masters in a trunk in Nuremberg, and in 1808 Rudolph Zacharias Becker produced the first of three volumes with restrikes from these blocks. This print, however, comes from the 1922 series of impressions, made after the collection entered into the Kupferstichkabinett in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Artist: Hans Burgkmair|Max J. Friedländer|Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin|E. A. Seemann
Date: Printed 1922
Medium: Woodcut; restrike of third state of three (Hollstein); Dershau restrike, 1922
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1922