print; broadside

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Object Type: print; broadside
Museum number: 1927,0518.13
Description: Broadside on the death of Emperor Maximilian I; with a woodcut of the coffin laid out in a vaulted chamber at upper centre with Maximilian's family seated at left and right; c.150 lines of Latin letterpress in three columns to left, right and below the woodcut, consisting elogies and other text by Richard Sbrulius. ([Augsburg, Grimm and Wirsung]:c.1519)
Producer name: Print made by: Hans Springinklee; Printed by: Sigmund Grimm; Printed by: Marx Wirsung
School/style
Production date: 1519
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 157 millimetres (Borderline); Height: 588 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 138 millimetres; Width: 453 millimetres
Curator's comments: One of three recorded impressions (the otehrs being in Paris and Munich). The gathering in the woodcut is not a representation of an actual event, but rather imaginary.
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (272) (Springinklee); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.409); Passavant 1860 / Raphael d'Urbin et son pere Giovanni Santi (III.242.67)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Associated with: Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor; Representation of: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor; Representation of: Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor; Representation of: Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy; Representation of: Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France; Representation of: Isabella of Castile, Queen of Denmark; Representation of: Catherine of Austria, Queen of John III of Portugal; Representation of: Mary, Queen of Hungary and Governor of the Netherlands; Illustration to: Scrulius, Richardus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1927
Acquisition notes: J.Rosenthal, Katalog 87, no.270
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1927,0518.13

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