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Dodgson, Campbell
Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] — London, 1903

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Division A.—School of Nuremherg.—Diirer.

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(2.) The Betrotiial witii Mary of Burgundy. (Diirer.)

Maximilian, partly in armour, wearing the archclucal crown, stands 1.
with a shield, quartering the principal Austrian possessions, ancl surmounted
by the same crown, at his feet. He receives from Mary, who stands r., a
shielcl with the arms of Burgundy.

The text above is in 5^ lines : “ Brimum itacg . . . pociuntur.” (Glax,
p. 279.)

[218 x 147; subject alone, 174 x 147.] Tlie woodcutis badly printed, over-iuked, aud
■spotty. The label vith text has been cut oft' and joined ou again. The paper is stained.

In the inventory of 1837.

The second subject of the series. Repr. (C41ax B) Hirth, no. 590. Maximilian was
betrothed to Mary, only daughter and heiress of Charles the lSold, on 31 January,
1476. They were married by proxy on 21 April, and in person on 19 August, 1477.

Auother block of the same subject, desigued by Springinklee, was used in thc
editions of 1799 and 1885-6. The present woodcut (repr. Chmelarz, p. 317) was used iu
all the xvi century editions and in all the separate editions of the historical subjects.

(3.) The War in Hainault. (Springinklee.)

The Burgundian infantry are seen r. repulsing the cavalry of
Louis XI 1.

The text is in 4T lines : !< Quantum vero . . . agnouit.” (Glax, p. 279.)

[218 X 148; subject, 178 x 148.] Condition as no. (2).

In the inventory of 1837.

The third subject. The marriage of Maximilian brought on a war between tho
Empire and Louis XI, who had hoped to obtain the hand of Mary for the daupliin,
Charles, and to acquire for France the possessions of the Duke of Burgundy in the
Netherlands.

(4.) The Battle of Guinegate. (Traut.)

Two engagements are represented, between infantry and cavalry.
In both cases the Burgundian troops occupy the I, the French the
r. side.

The text is in 5f lines: “ Apud Terrauonam . . . pungnatorum.”
(Glax, p. 279.)

[219 x 147; subject, 171 x 147.] Condition as no. (2).

In tlie iuventory of 1837.

The fourth subject. Maximilian besieged Terouanne from May to August, 1479. He
defeated the French army sent to relieve the town on August 7tli, at Guinegate.

(5.) The First War in Gueldres. (Traut.)

Cavalry and infantry are again represented, with the Burgundian
and rebel Flemish standards. In the background a town is being
bombarded.

The text is in 4f lines : !! Inter Caesarem . . . compulit.” (Glax,
p. 279.)

[217 X 148 ; subject, 169 x 148.] Condition as no. (2).

In the inventory of 1837.

The fifth subject. The trouble with Gueldres began in 1480. Charles of Egmont
(1467-1538), with the King of France and the population of the Duchy on his side,
refused to acknowledge Maximilian as Duke of Gueldres. Charles took up arms in
1492; in 1494 four of the electors pronounced in favour of Maximilian, wlio invadod the
Duchy in that year, but retired without reducing it to submission.

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