Tag: "germancultureclasscollection"

Woodcut (hand-colored by a reader) featuring emblems of various Swiss cantons (among them, Basel, Berne, Uri, Zug and Glarus) around central Habsburg arms. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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Title page of a book from the library of Maria Benigna Francisca Piccolomini (1635-1701)

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Historiated woodcut title border used by Johann Schönsperger of Zwickau

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Woodcut arms of Gottfried von Hohenlohe (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven with the Christ Child, with artist's(?) monogram at foot of image. Used by Wolfgang Stoeckel.

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16th century German binding: full blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards

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Woodcut arms of Ludwig von Erlichshausen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut of Our Lady of Sorrows. Used by Valentin Schumann of Leipzig.

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Woodcut, depicting a scholar wearing spectacles and holding a fly-swatter, attributed to Heinrich Vogtherr

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Armorial bookplate of the Pfau family (Winterthur, Switzerland)

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Woodcut arms of Martin Truchsess von Wetzhausen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut of St. Paul at his writing table; used by Hans Lufft of Wittenberg

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Left cover of a green parchment binding

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Woodcut title illustration depicting Jesus Christ blessing the children while his disciples look on within an architectural border; used by Georg Wachter of Nuremberg

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Woodcut used by Valentin Schumann

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'Brandes sale'

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Setzer of Haguenau

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Woodcut illustration in which God the Father, appearing in the sky, threatens vengeance upon the sinful people of the earth, while pope, king, and a well-dressed man with a sword and a hat, beg to be...

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Woodcut device of Johann Eichorn, printer at Frankfurt an der Oder

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Woodcut title illustration (Jesus Christ with Saints Peter and Paul) by Hans Sebald Beham. Used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg

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Monogram stamp of Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1845-1923)

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Printer's device of Johann Froben of Basel

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'Zu Brandes 750'

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Woodcut of a (fashionably accoutred!) mermaid with two tails holding a flower in each hand. Used by Valentin Schumann of Leipzig.

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