print
- Museum number
- 1868,0208.57
- Title
- Series: The victories of Emperor Charles V
- Description
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Emperor Charles V amidst his vanquished adversaries; he sits on an eagle between two pillars and holds a sword and orb flanked by six tethered foes; after Heemskerck. 1556
Engraving and etching and letterpress
- Production date
- 1555
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 millimetres
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Width: 228 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of twelve plates after Maarten van Heemskerck (New Hollstein 524-535); for an incomplete set see 1868,0208.57-68 (plus 1871,1209.4732). A special edition was printed on blue paper (now for instance kept in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam). An album of the twelve prints assembed in 1691 by François Fossard, Louis XIV's Ordinaire de la Musique, is kept at 244.a.14 (see 1947,0319.8.1-12).
Literature: B.Rosier, 'The victories of Charles V', Simiolus 20 1990/1, pp.24-38. Ilja Veldman, in J. van Grieken - G. Luijten - J. van der Stock, "Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print", exh.cat. Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels and Fondation Custodia in Paris, New Haven and London, 2013, cat.no.88.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0208.57