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Albrecht Durer's woodcuts for The Ship of Fools (1494)

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German 16th century printmakers: Heinrich Aldegrever, Jost Amman, Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Brosamer, Hans Burgkmair, Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Albrecht Durer (After), Hans Holbein (After), Hopfer Brothers, Georg Pencz, Hans Schäufelein, Virgil Solis, Wolfgang Stuber.

"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters":
Goya’s Caprichos etchings (1799), Durer's Ship of Fools woodcuts (1494), David Deuchar’s etchings (1786) after Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death, John Martin’s mezzotints for Milton's Paradise Lost (1823-25), and Georges Rouault’s Miserere mixed-media intaglios (1922-1928)
A Lost Fool (Hutt 1366, Borer 136, Schramm 1158). Original woodcut, 1494. A good impression on laid paper from the 1497 edition. Image size: 117x84mm. Price: $1500.

According to the 1511 edition, "Some men persist on Folly's road, / And draw a cart with heavy lode: / The right cart waits in heaven's abode."
A Lost Fool (Hutt 1366, Borer 136, Schramm 1158). Original woodcut, 1494. A good impression on laid paper from the 1511 edition. Image size: 117x84mm. Price: $1375.

According to the 1511 edition, "Some men persist on Folly's road, / And draw a cart with heavy lode: / The right cart waits in heaven's abode."
Anonymous, A Heavily-Burdened Fool. Original woodcut, 1494. published in The Ship of Fools). A good impression on laid paper from the 1511 edition. Image size: 116x84mm. Price: $425.

The 1511 edition tells us: "If many a benefice you'ld share, / Your ace will fall more oft than fare: / An ass can die from heavy fare."
Anonymous, An Abusive Fool. Original woodcut, 1494. The woodcut is based upon two of Durer's designs for the 1494 edition of The Ship of Fools (see Hutt 1360 and 1382). A good impression on laid paper from the 1511 edition. Image size: 116x84mm. Price: $425.
The Scientific Fool. Anonymous, A Heavily-Burdened Fool. Original woodcut, 1494. published in The Ship of Fools). A good impression on laid paper from the 1511 edition. Image size: 117x84mm. Price: $425.

The 1511 edition tells us: "Who measures heaven, earth, sea, and sky, / Thus seeking lore or gaiety, / Let him beware a fool to be"

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