Antoni Tucher the Elder reports from Nuremberg to the Elector of Saxony's chamberlain Degenhardt Pfeffinger that he still has the letter from the Elector of Saxony to his painter Lucas Cranach, as he has not yet arrived in Nuremberg. Furthermore, Tucher again emphasizes that the master Hans Krug had created a high-quality clay model with a portrait of the Elector of Saxony and using it as a template had begun to engrave the die.

Antoni Tucher the Elder reports from Nuremberg to the Elector of Saxony's chamberlain Degenhardt Pfeffinger that he still has the letter from the Elector of Saxony to his painter Lucas Cranach, as he has not yet arrived in Nuremberg. Furthermore, Tucher again emphasizes that the master Hans Krug had created a high-quality clay model with a portrait of the Elector of Saxony and using it as a template had begun to engrave the die.

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Production date
1508 July 13
Repository
Bayrisches Staatsarchiv Nürnberg
Location / Date
Dat[um] donerstag nach Kilianj anno [etc.] octavo
Signature
Nürnberger Briefbücher, Bd. 61, Bl. 245r u. v

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  • Nürnberger Briefbücher, Bd. 61, Bl. 245r u. v

CDA ID
DE_BStAN_Briefbuecher_Bd61_245
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BStAN_Briefbuecher_Bd61_245/

Publications

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Arnold 2013
AuthorPaul Arnold
TitleMünzen oder Medaillen, Die Gedenkprägungen des sächsischen Kurfürsten Friedrichs des Weisen, Impulse
Publicationin, Dräger, Ulf, Lücke, Monika, Müller Walter, eds., Halle und die Numismatik, Wissenschaftlicher Tagungsband zum 8. Deutschen und zum 19. Mitteldeutschen Münzsammlertreffen 14. bis 16. Oktober 2011
Place of PublicationHalle (Saale)
Year of Publication2013
Pages54-67
Heydenreich 2007 A 409
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleLucas Cranach the Elder
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
Year of Publication2007
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/6116/2097/3099/Heydenreich_2007_Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.pdf
Schade 1974 403
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
Gümbel 1926 49-50
AuthorAlbert Grümbel
TitleDer Kursächsische Kämmerer Degenhart von Pfeffingen, der Begleiter Dürers auf der 'Marter der zehntausend Christen'
SeriesStudien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte
Volume238
Place of PublicationStrasbourg
Year of Publication1926
  • Antoni Tucher the Elder reports from Nuremberg to the Elector of Saxony's chamberlain Degenhardt Pfeffinger that he still has the letter from the Elector of Saxony to his painter Lucas Cranach, as he has not yet arrived in Nuremberg. Furthermore, Tucher again emphasizes that the master Hans Krug had created a high-quality clay model with a portrait of the Elector of Saxony and using it as a template had begun to engrave the die., 1508 July 13

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Transcription

Degenhart[en] von Pfeffing[e]n cammerer [etc.]

Lieber her[r] cam[m]erer, ir habt mir nechst geschrieb[e]n vnnd darneb[e]n eine[n] verschlosß[e]n senndbrieff an Lucas meins gnedigist[e]n her[re]n hertzog Fridrichs von Sachß[e]n, curfurst[e]n [etc.] maler verlautend vbersenndet, demselb[e]n Lucaß[e]n zu seiner zukunfft gein Nurmberg zuuberannt[worten] vnnd wie wol ich also seiner zukunfft gewart, ist er doch bißhere noch nit alhie einkom[m]en, deßhalb[e]n ich den brieff bißhere beyhendig behalt[e]n hab verners beschaids von gedachtem meine[m] gnedigst[e]n her[re]n oder euch zugewart[en]. Wie wol ich mich versich, es sey verner visirung des malers on not, denn Hanns Krug hat von der pildnus meins gnedigist[e]n her[e]n ab dem abgeno[m]men gemel deß tefeleins in der predig[er] kirch[e]n in laymen ainen abdruck gemacht, wo ir den seh[e]n wurde euch vnnd zuvor meine[n] gnedigist[e]n her[e]n, dafur ichs genntzlich acht sonnders zweiffels nit misfellig sein, darumb er sich auch bey vergang[e]n tag[e]n zu der arbait der eyßinn stempff hat begeb[e]n der zuversich, er wolle den sach[e]n damit nit vnrecht thun, wie wol nun solche arbait guter zeit bedarff, will er doch keine[n] vleiß aller moglich[er] furdrung, wie er mir anzaigt, nit spar[e]n. Er hat mir auch gestern fur 600 guld[e]n gemacht[er] stain, der acht am guldin gelt[en], vberannt[wort]t[et], die will ich mit hilff Hannß[e]n [Bl. 245v] vnnbehaw[e]n mit dem furderlichst[e]n fertig[e]n an das ort, wie ich von meine[m] gnedigist[e]n her[e]n in bevelhe hab, wolt ich euch, dem ich zu williger dinstp[ar]kait wol genaigt bin, guter maynu[n]g nit verhalt[e]n. Dat[um] donerstag nach Kiliani anno [etc.] octavo [13.07.1508]
Anthoni Tuch[er] der elter zu Nur[nberg]

Transcription by
Lücke, Dietrich; Lücke, Monika
Transcription Date
2021

Comments

Heydenreich 2007, p. 409, no. 27 contains only an excerpt. The text was taken from the original in accordance with the usual transcription standards. Cf. Arnold 2013, pp. 54-67 and further references to the 6th of July 1508.

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