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De proteruo ac spontaneo periculo

Date: 1498

Ship of Fools Woodcuts

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Rights	Public Domain

Creator	Dürer, Albrecht
Subject	Allegories Fools and jesters Satire Folly
Place	Basel, Switzerland
Genre	woodcuts (prints) prints (visual works)
Type	Image
Language	German
Provenance	Rare Books and Maps Collection University of Houston Libraries Special Collections Ship of Fools Woodcuts

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Title	De proteruo ac spontaneo periculo
Alternative	Of wantonly seeking misfortune
Creator	Dürer, Albrecht
Publisher	Bergmann, Johann
Date	1498
Language	German
Description	This woodcut is attributed to the artist Albrecht Dürer. It is an illustration from the book Stultifera Navis (Ship of Fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498. Inscription on image (German): "In geschicht recht."
Subject	Allegories Fools and jesters Satire Folly
Place	Basel, Switzerland
Genre	woodcuts (prints) prints (visual works)
Format	1 woodcut
Type	Image
Identifier	OCLC: 16633666 PT1509.N34 1498
Provenance	Rare Books and Maps Collection University of Houston Libraries Special Collections Ship of Fools Woodcuts
Donor	The Rockwell Fund, In memory of James Rockwell
Rights	Public Domain
Related Item	https://id.lib.uh.edu/ark:/84475/do9180vs932
Digital Object ARK	ark:/84475/do4334fp67h