Tag: "illustration

Woodcut ('Sauritt des Papsts') after Lucas Cranach the Elder, used by Christian Rödinger the Elder of Magdeburg, of the pope riding a sow, holding steaming excrement

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Woodcut illustration of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), cardinal, theologian and envoy of Pope Eugene IV, holding a girdle book. Used by Georg Rhaw of Wittenberg

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Bookplate of Dr. Bradley H. Kirschberg (1883?-1941), chemist and head of the New York State Police Laboratory

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Device of Vincenzo Pelagallo (Vaccaro 229)

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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Johann Herrgott of Nuremberg

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Woodcut illustration of the defeat of Cyrus II by Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae

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Woodcut used by Wolfgang Stoeckel

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Bookplate of the Royal Society (Great Britain)

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Woodcut of a crocodile[!]

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Woodcut of Jesus Christ as the Good Shepherd (with ms. note: 'Ecce Agnus de[i] tollit peccata'); used by Melchior Ramminger of Augsburg

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Woodcut title illustration (the risen Christ with crown of thorns and marks in hands and feet pointing to a fruit tree with three banners inscribed 'Werck' [Deeds], 'Lieb' [Love], and 'Glaub' [Faith])...

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Woodcut illustration of a Protestant preacher used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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Woodcut illustration of a verse retelling of the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) by Jacob Locher. Used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg.

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tete 2

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Abstract Geometric

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Initial Z

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Woodcut device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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

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Woodcut illustration of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia

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Woodcut illustration of Hercules (dressed as both a man and a woman) and Iole

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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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