The Coat of Arms of Wigeleus von Fröschel, Bishop of Passau

1503

Hans Burgkmair I

Associated Names
Hans Burgkmair I

Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

This is a drawing of a heraldic coat of arms with two angels and a large bishop's mitre. The coat of arms is quartered, featuring lions in red sections and frog-like creatures in black sections, with a smaller inescutcheon in the center showing a lion. Two angels support the coat of arms and hold a bishop's mitre above it. The colors include reds, greens, black, and gold. The composition is framed with intricate black linework.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    block: 18.2 x 13 cm (7 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.7 x 13.2 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2008.8.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 811

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Daniela Laube Inc., New York); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 21.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Wikidata ID

Q76438831

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