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

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Field 1965, no. 295

Accession Number

1951.16.4

Artists / Makers

German 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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

Hauslab, Franz Ritter von
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.