Emperor Charles V
1520 (or 1521?); printed 1684
Publisher, German, 1642 - 1709
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) with open biting
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 22.4 x 15.7 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.5081
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 63, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 39, repro.
2000
The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 97.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV (under Hieronymus Hopfer), no. 63, ii/ii.
2009
Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 95, iii/iii.
Inscriptions
below image, in plate: CAROLVS·VON·GOTS·GNAD·REMISCH· / KING·ERWELTER·KAISER·KING·ZVO· / HISSPANIA·VND·BAIDER·SICILEN·ECZ· / ERCZHERZOG·ZVO·OSTERREICH·HERCZ / OG·VON·BVRGVUND·BRABANT·ECZ·GRA / F·ZVO·FLANDER·TIROL·ECZ·I [family pine cone symbol]·H·M·D·XX [I?]
Watermarks
MS with horn
Wikidata ID
Q65019439