2-632-385 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The City of Treviso with a Carrack', 1493. The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514), with a version in German, translated by Georg Alt, in 1493. Illustrations by German artists Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (1460-1494), with the assistance of their studio apprentices, among whom was the young Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). The city of Treviso, is the capital of the province of Treviso in Northern Italy. From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]