Tag: "woodcuts"

Illustrations of four barons of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Freiherr von Limpurg, Freiherr von Thusis[?], Freiherr von Westerburg, Freiherr von Alwalden[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter Jor...

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Illustrations of 4 margraves of the Holy Roman Empire and their insignia (from left: Margrave of Moravia, Margrave of Meissen, Margrave of Brandenburg, and Margrave of Baden) used by Peter Jordan of M...

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Woodcut illustration of God joining man and woman (or possibly Adam and Eve, specifically) in marriage, used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Woodcut of a crocodile[!]

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Illustration of four towns of the Holy Roman Empire (clockwise from top left: Bamberg, Sélestat, Ulm, Haguenau) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Woodcut of an asp[!]

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Illustration of four towns (Bauern) of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Cologne, Regensburg, Konstanz, and Salzburg) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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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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Illustrations of four burgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Burggraf von Nürnberg, Burggraf von Magdeburg, Ritter von Stromberg, and Burggraf von Rieneck[?]) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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Woodcut arms of Ludolf König (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Olympias, wife of Philip II of Macedon, and the deaths of Pausanias and of Cleopatra and her daughter

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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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Device of printer Gracioso Perchacino, fl. 1553-1601

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Illustrations of four Landgraves of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Landgraf von Thuringia, Landgraf von Hesse, Landgraf von Leuchtenburg, and Landgraf von Elsass) and their insignia, used by Peter...

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

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Illustrations of four knights of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Ritter von Andlau, Ritter von Strandeck, Ritter von Meldingen, Ritter von Frauenberg) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Ma...

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Woodcut illustration of the sacrifice of Polyxena by Neoptolemus at the tomb of Achilles

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Woodcut printer's device of Johann Knobloch of Strasbourg

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Illustrations of four counts of the Holy Roman Empire (from left: Graf von Cleve, Graf von Schwarzburg, Graf von Cilli, Graf von Savoyen) with their insignia, used by Peter Jordan of Mainz

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Device of printer Johann Faber (d. 1542)

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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Illustration of the Holy Roman Emperor with the insignia of the Habsburgs and of four dukedoms (from left: Schwaben [or Swabia], Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein [or Palatinate], Braunschweig, Lorraine [or L...

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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