Marginal Drawings in Erasmus's Praise of Folly

Medium

Pen and brown ink in the margins of a printed book

Collection

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Inventory

1662.166

Period

Basel, 1515–1525

Attribution

Hans Holbein the Younger

About eighty pen drawings in Myconius's copy of the 1515 Froben edition; a few are now given to Ambrosius Holbein. The museum catalogues each drawing separately (1662.166.1 to 1662.166.82).

760 × 1060 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.