print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.541
- Title
- Object: Der Geistliche Ritter, Dessen Beschreibung genommen ausz der Epistel Sanct Pauli...
- Description
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A broadside on true Christian faith with reference to St Paul; with an etching from 1620 showing an soldier in Roman armour standing on a rock, looking straight ahead and ignoring the figues around him, personifications of wealth, sin, false preaching, and the devil; with engraved inscriptions, and with letterpress title and text by Brulovius in three columns, and with one horizontal segment and a frame of type ornaments. (Strasbourg, Aubry: 1668)
- Production date
- 1668
- Dimensions
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Height: 158 millimetres (etching)
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Height: 350 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 177 millimetres (etching)
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Width: 243 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This sheet seems to be the 1668 edition of an earlier broadside, published around 1620: the image is dated 1620 and the author of the text died 1627.
For discussion of this print and its context see Andreas Wang, Der 'Miles Christianus' im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert und seine mittelalterliche Tradition. Ein Beitrag zum Verhältnis von sprachlicher und graphischer Bildlichkeit. (= Mikrokosmos. Band 1).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.541