Broadside: An Invitation to an Arms Competition

in or after 1501

German 16th Century

Associated Names
German 16th Century

Artist

This is a painting of a historical manuscript featuring weaponry and a crest. The image portrays an old document with dense blackletter text filling much of the page. Illustrated depictions of a crossbow and an early firearm are on the left and right side of the top section, with a detailed crest in the middle. Below are a circular schematic and an illustration of a figure in colorful attire sitting on two barrels. The character is dressed in a multicolored garment and hat, resembling a style from the period. The overall appearance suggests a medieval or Renaissance manuscript with illustrations and text related to history or inventions. The style resembles that of a Renaissance artist known for manuscripts or engravings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored, with movable type on two joined sheets of paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 61.5 × 46.2 cm (24 3/16 × 18 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.16.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Field 1965, no. 295

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz Ritter von Hauslab [1798-1883], Vienna; Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna; (H.P. Kraus, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1951; gift to NGA, 1951.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1951

  • Fifteenth-Century Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1951-1952.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 295, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.

Bibliography

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

1994

  • Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 New Haven and London, 1994: fig. 243.

2018

  • Schmidt, Suzanne Karr. Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 335-337, Fig. 11.6.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65218401

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