book-illustration;
print
- Museum number
- 1895,0122.742-743
- Title
- Object: Insignia Regie Maiestatis
- Description
-
Copy of a woodcut of c.1500, showing the coat of arms of Maximilian I as King of the Romans, with five shields surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece, the top shield with a black single-headed eagle with a nimbus, above one line with letterpress; on the verso a copy of the arms of Florian Waldauf von Waldenstein, with the shield surmounted by two helmets and crests, surrounded by the collar of the Order of the Swan, with one line of letterpress on the top. c.1517
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1517
- Dimensions
-
Height: 251 millimetres (recto, printed area)
-
Height: 233 millimetres (recto, woodcut)
-
Height: 240 millimetres (verso, printed area)
-
Height: 231 millimetres (verso, woodcut)
-
Width: 150 millimetres (recto, printed area)
-
Width: 150 millimetres (recto, woodcut)
-
Width: 143 millimetres (verso, printed area)
-
Width: 143 millimetres (verso, woodcut)
- Curator's comments
-
The original woodcuts first occurred in the editions of St. Bridget's Revelations, printed at Nuremberg in 1500 (Latin) and 1502 (German); these copies are from the 1517 edition.
-
The original of the verso is not by Dürer.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0122.742-743