Broadside: An Invitation to an Arms Competition
in or after 1501
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored, with movable type on two joined sheets of paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 61.5 × 46.2 cm (24 3/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1951.16.4
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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