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Bronze medal of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, by Johann Gottfried Schadow

Johann Goethe (1749-1832), the famous poet, novelist, playwr…
Pink triangle badge

This badge is worn as a symbol of gay pride, although the pi…
Portrait of Albrecht Dürer, a bronze medal after Hans Schwarz

The original medal by Hans Schwarz (1492 - after 1535) is kn…
Silver 5 talers of Julius, duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel

The dukes of the Brunswick dynasty in Germany inherited acce…
Silver medal of Martin Luther and Philip Melancthon

The reformation movement, formulated by the ideas of Martin …
Silver sterbethaler ('death thaler') of Sybilla Ursula, duchess of Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg

From the late sixteenth century in Germany, the events of a …
Castellated dial clock

The spread of large cathedral and church clocks throughout E…
Gold disc brooch

The brooch is made in the cloisonné technique with garnets…
Gothic wall clock

The 'gothic' style persisted in clock design until very late…
Sword of Justice

Just as swords have come to stand as symbols of power, majes…
Albrecht Dürer and others, The Triumphal Arch, woodcut

The Triumphal Arch is one of the largest prints ever produce…
Albrecht Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, a woodcut portrait

When Maximilian of Austria (1459-1519) was elected Holy Roma…
Albrecht Dürer, Head of a Woman, a drawing

This study is drawn with a brush in black and grey bodycolou…
Albrecht Dürer, Head of the dead Christ, a drawing

This dramatic drawing of the dead Christ is made in charcoal…
Albrecht Dürer, Hercules, a woodblock and woodcut

The scroll at the top of this woodcut identifies the subject…
Albrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, a copperplate engraving

‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I …
Albrecht Dürer, Melancholia, an engraving

The bat-like creature flying through a night sky declares th…
Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome in his Study, a copperplate engraving

The lion and cardinal's hat allow us to identify the figure …
Albrecht Dürer, St Jerome seated near a pollard willow, a drypoint

Dürer only made three drypoints in his career, which probabl…
Albrecht Dürer, Sudarium of St Veronica supported by two angels, an engraving

The sudarium of St Veronica is the cloth with which, accordi…
Albrecht Dürer The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a woodcut

When the 27-year-old Dürer published the text of the Book of…
Albrecht Dürer, The Sun, the Moon and a Basilisk, a drawing

This small drawing is a fragment cut out of an original manu…
Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Auch ich war in Arkadien, an etching

Kolbe (1759-1835), felt the intense identity with nature sha…
Caspar David Friedrich, The woman with the spider's web, a woodcut

This print is related to other compositions by Friedrich (17…
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, The Improvement of Morals, an etching

By the age of 60, Chodowiecki (1726-1801) had been the most …
Edvard Munch, Melancholy, a woodcut

As with many of Munch's works, this design appears in severa…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of Otto Müller, a woodcut

Kirchner's output of paintings, drawings and prints from mid…
Hans Holbein the Younger, The Rich Man, a woodcut

The Dance of Death is the most celebrated series of woodcuts…
Hans Wechtlin, Skull Within an Ornamental Frame, a woodcut

This great skull seems to thrust itself off the page into ou…
Hans Weiditz, Emperor Charles V, coloured woodcut on vellum

The woodcut depicts the young Charles V in the year he was c…
Israhel van Meckenem, Samson Slaying the Lion, engraving

Israhel van Meckenem (1450-1503) was the most productive eng…
Israhel van Meckenem, Self-portrait and Wife, an engraving

The Latin inscription on the bottom of this print translates…
Jost Amman, The Printer's Workshop, a woodcut

In the background two men are selecting letters from a doubl…
Ludvig von Siegen, Holy Family and St John the Baptist, a mezzotint print

Mezzotint (literally translated as 'half-tone') was a printm…
Madonna and Child, a woodcut

The Virgin sits on a cushion placed on a tiled floor, a posi…
Martin Schongauer, The Death of the Virgin, a copperplate engraving

According to the thirteenth-century Golden Legend of Jacobus…
Martin Schongauer, The Temptation of St Anthony, a copperplate engraving

According to his biographer, the rigorous asceticism practis…
Martin Schongauer, Young Woman Fanning a fire with a bird's wing, a drawing

The meaning of this curious drawing is unclear. The young wo…
Master ES, Virgin and Child Enthroned Between Two Angels, a copperplate engraving

The Virgin holds a sceptre and is enthroned as Queen of Heav…
Prince Rupert (Ruprecht of Pfalz), The Great Executioner, a mezzotint

This huge mezzotint is a masterpiece from the early years of…
1,000,000 mark note

Banknotes for huge sums of money sound like a dream come tru…
Jost Amman, An Allegory of a Prosperous Germany, drawing

Jost Amman (1539-91) was born in Switzerland but in 1561 mov…
Pewter candlestick, designed by J.M. Olbrich

This cast pewter candlestick was designed by the Austrian de…
Square table clock with detachable alarm

During the second half of the sixteenth century clocks becam…
Albrecht Dürer, Design for a Gothic Table Fountain

This large drawing is drawn in pen and brown ink with waterc…
Albrecht Dürer, Woman of Nuremberg, a drawing

This brush drawing in watercolour is a study for the woman's…
Christ before Herod, a woodcut

This large woodcut is probably the earliest print in The Bri…
Heinrich Aldegrever, Design for a richly decorated dagger sheath, a copper plate engraving

The early history of engraved, copper plates for printing wa…
Bill of exchange

Bills of exchange evolved with the growth of banking in Euro…
Brass reckoning counter, Rechenmeister type

Reckoning counters, jettons or Rechenpfennige ('reckoning-pe…
Cast bronze medal of shipbuilding in Germany, by Ludwig Gies

This one-sided medal by Ludwig Gies (1887-1966), a German me…
Gold medallic portugalöser (10 ducats)

Many cities in the Holy Roman Empire had their own coinages.…
Gold medallion of Constantius I Chlorus

In AD 296 Britain was again annexed to the Roman Empire afte…
Silver 4-thalers of Christian Ludwig, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

In the seventeenth century the dukes of Brunswick, Germany, …
Silver argenteus of Constantine the Great

The Roman emperor Constantine I, 'the Great' (reigned AD 306…
Silver bracteate pfennig of Wichmann von Seeburg, archbishop of Magdeburg

In the early Middle Ages many religious leaders (archbishops…
Silver pfennig of Agnes II von Meissen, abbess of Quedlinburg

The abbesses of a small group of prominent convents were giv…
Silver vereinsthaler coin

Until the mid- to late nineteenth century, German states, in…
Black slip jug with barbotine decoration

The jug is covered with an overall dull black slip (a coatin…
Glass dropper-flask in the form of a gladiator's helmet

This flask, in the form of a gladiator's helmet, is a produc…
The sword of Tiberius

This detail of the tinned and gilded scabbard shows the Roma…
Astronomical compendium

Astronomical compendia are a collection of small instruments…
The mechanical galleon

There was a great fascination for automated machines at the …
Carved bone casket with Romance scenes

This carved bone casket features one of the earliest known m…
Copper-alloy disc brooch

The brooch is decorated in repoussé with a low-relief figure…
Covered glass goblet

By the end of the seventeenth century glass-makers in Northe…
Enamelled measuring glass (passglas)

This is a passglas (measuring glass), a type of drinking gla…
Fragments of a glass bowl with biblical scenes

These fragments formed part of a bowl blown from colourless …

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