Coat of Arms of Scheurl and Tucher Families, 1512

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Medium

woodcut with letterpress text on laid paper

Dimensions

block: 29 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 38.4 × 27.6 cm (15 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 96, State i/ii

Accession Number

1950.1.61

Artists / Makers

Wolf Traut (artist) German, c. 1486 - 1520

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, above image: HIC SCHEVRLINA SIMVL TVCHERINAQ SIGNA REFVLGENT / QVAE DOCTOR GEMINI SCHEVRLE PARENTIS HABES; outside of block on all sides, in letterpress: [biblical quotations and other text]

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1950.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. XCIV (Wolf Traut, Dieter Beaujean, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2019, no. 96, state i/ii.