Ambrosius Holbein (1494-1519) was a German painter, drawer, and printmaker and his brother, Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1534), was a sixteenth century portraitist. Their father was Hans Holbein the Elder (c. 1460-1524), and their uncle was Sigmund Holbein, who died in 1540.
The collection includes four book leaves, written in Latin, that display early German woodcut prints by the Holbein family.
Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection. Although Rhode Island College has physical ownership of the collection, it does not necessarily hold literary rights. It is up to the researcher to determine the owners of the literary rights and to obtain any necessary permissions from them.
The collection is open for research.
Book leaves of woodcut prints by Holbein family, MSS-0122, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.
The collection is arranged in the order in which it arrived in the Rhode Island College Special Collections.
The collection was likely donated by Martha Bacon Ballinger and Ronald Ballinger in the 1980s as part of the Bacon and Hazard family collections. It was separated from those collections prior to 2019.
The collection was described by Special Collections intern, Melissa Moniz, in 2023 under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison. Further information regarding item 1 in the collection was provided by Rhode Island College students Devine Ross, James Pastore, Julia Pepin, and Gleny Vargas Melo during their First Year Seminar class “Raid the Collections,” taught by Professor Amy Barlow, in 2024.
Students in FYS 100 “Raid the Collections” created a podcast episode based on item one in the collection. The podcast is part of the FYS 100 “Raid the Collections” podcast series collection in Special Collections.
This collection has not been digitized. For information about obtaining digital copies, please contact the Rhode Island College Special Collections.