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Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
Augsburg, about 1517-22. The copy will have been made at Augsburg in 1519; it
was doubtless occasioned, like the other portraits made at Nuremberg, by the great
demand for this portrait which followed the Emperor’s death on January 12th in that
year. The original woodcut was probably published in 1518, during the Emperor’s
lifetime. An impression of the rare first state of B. 153, before the insertion of the
monogram, is in the Kunsthalle at Bremen.
V. 1520-1527. Nos. 142-156.
f THE ARMS OF ROGENDORF. 1520. R. 239.
(Reproduction.)
See Lange and Fuhse, “Diirer’s Schriftlicher Nachlass,” p. 126, 1. 20, n. 8 ; p. 127,
1.1; p. 128, ). 27. On the Rogendorf family, see Heraldisch-genealogisclie Zeitschrijt, ii,
102 (Wien, 1872).
Lithograph by Retberg, Naumann’s Archiv, x, 284, 4. First copy, exactly repro-
ducing the only known impression, in the Germanic Museum, Nuremberg, wliich has
the r. lower corner torn away. No. 26 of 50 impressions; presented by Retberg to
Andresen.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
Also the second copy, on another stone, with the missiug corner drawn in by Friedrich
Wolf of Munich. Naumann’s Archiv, xiv, 126, one of 50 impressions; presented by
Retberg to F. Prestel.
Presented by F. Prestel, 1870.
f THE ARMS OF LORENZ STAIBER. 1520. R. 240.
(Reproduction.)
Lithograph by Retberg, 1864 (Naumann’s Archiv, xi, 67, 16), from the only known
impression of the first block, in the Hausmann collection, which now belongs to
Dr. Blasius at Brunswick.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
Diirer drew Staiber’s arms on wood at Cologne in November, 1520 (Lange and Fuhse,
p. 136, 1. 12). He drew them again (in wliat way is not mentioned) at Antwerp in
1521 (ibid. p. 148, 1.11). Two very small pen-and-ink sketches of Staiber’s arms are
preserved in the Diirer MSS. at the British Museum (Sloane 5229, fol. 59). They do
not appear to be connected with the woodcut.
There is notliing to prove that this is actually the woodcut designed by Diirer ; but
it is, at least, more worthy of him tlian B. 167, 168. The collar of S’s, with portcullises
and Tudor rose, is English. It is not the collar of an order of knighthood, but the
“ collar of the Iving’s livery,” which might be conferred on persons of knightly or higher
rank, but did not carry witli it any higher degree of nobility than that of Esquire (see
J. G. Nichols on “ Collars of the Royal Livery,” in Gent. Mag. N.S. vols. xvii-xix, esp.
xix, p. 259). The eollar in this form was placed round the royal arms on a signet used
by Heury VII and Henry VIII; it is also to be seen on Holbein’s portrait of Sir T. More
as chnncellor, tlie only difl'erence being that the S’s there are not divided by knots (see
Scliarf in Archxologia, xxxix, 267). Staiber had been in Englaud, and had received
the honour of knighthood from Henry VIII at some date previous to December, 1523,
as appears from a Latin holograph letter in the Record Office, thus summarised in
Brewer’s “ Letters and Papers of Henry VIII,” iii, pt. 2, p. 1498, no. 3602; “ Sir
Lawrence Stauber to Henry VIII. Does not forget the King’s kindness when he made
him a knight at Windsor. Offers to serve the King witli 100 horse. Nuremberg,
4 Dec. 1523.” Staiber, who was in the service of Charles V, was buried in the abbey
church at Heilsbronn, near Ansbach; his arms are shown on a kind of circular
hatchment attached to the S. wall of the nave (see Heller, no. 1946).
Early German and Flemish Woodcuts.—Part II.
Augsburg, about 1517-22. The copy will have been made at Augsburg in 1519; it
was doubtless occasioned, like the other portraits made at Nuremberg, by the great
demand for this portrait which followed the Emperor’s death on January 12th in that
year. The original woodcut was probably published in 1518, during the Emperor’s
lifetime. An impression of the rare first state of B. 153, before the insertion of the
monogram, is in the Kunsthalle at Bremen.
V. 1520-1527. Nos. 142-156.
f THE ARMS OF ROGENDORF. 1520. R. 239.
(Reproduction.)
See Lange and Fuhse, “Diirer’s Schriftlicher Nachlass,” p. 126, 1. 20, n. 8 ; p. 127,
1.1; p. 128, ). 27. On the Rogendorf family, see Heraldisch-genealogisclie Zeitschrijt, ii,
102 (Wien, 1872).
Lithograph by Retberg, Naumann’s Archiv, x, 284, 4. First copy, exactly repro-
ducing the only known impression, in the Germanic Museum, Nuremberg, wliich has
the r. lower corner torn away. No. 26 of 50 impressions; presented by Retberg to
Andresen.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
Also the second copy, on another stone, with the missiug corner drawn in by Friedrich
Wolf of Munich. Naumann’s Archiv, xiv, 126, one of 50 impressions; presented by
Retberg to F. Prestel.
Presented by F. Prestel, 1870.
f THE ARMS OF LORENZ STAIBER. 1520. R. 240.
(Reproduction.)
Lithograph by Retberg, 1864 (Naumann’s Archiv, xi, 67, 16), from the only known
impression of the first block, in the Hausmann collection, which now belongs to
Dr. Blasius at Brunswick.
Presented by W. Mitchell, Esq., 1895.
Diirer drew Staiber’s arms on wood at Cologne in November, 1520 (Lange and Fuhse,
p. 136, 1. 12). He drew them again (in wliat way is not mentioned) at Antwerp in
1521 (ibid. p. 148, 1.11). Two very small pen-and-ink sketches of Staiber’s arms are
preserved in the Diirer MSS. at the British Museum (Sloane 5229, fol. 59). They do
not appear to be connected with the woodcut.
There is notliing to prove that this is actually the woodcut designed by Diirer ; but
it is, at least, more worthy of him tlian B. 167, 168. The collar of S’s, with portcullises
and Tudor rose, is English. It is not the collar of an order of knighthood, but the
“ collar of the Iving’s livery,” which might be conferred on persons of knightly or higher
rank, but did not carry witli it any higher degree of nobility than that of Esquire (see
J. G. Nichols on “ Collars of the Royal Livery,” in Gent. Mag. N.S. vols. xvii-xix, esp.
xix, p. 259). The eollar in this form was placed round the royal arms on a signet used
by Heury VII and Henry VIII; it is also to be seen on Holbein’s portrait of Sir T. More
as chnncellor, tlie only difl'erence being that the S’s there are not divided by knots (see
Scliarf in Archxologia, xxxix, 267). Staiber had been in Englaud, and had received
the honour of knighthood from Henry VIII at some date previous to December, 1523,
as appears from a Latin holograph letter in the Record Office, thus summarised in
Brewer’s “ Letters and Papers of Henry VIII,” iii, pt. 2, p. 1498, no. 3602; “ Sir
Lawrence Stauber to Henry VIII. Does not forget the King’s kindness when he made
him a knight at Windsor. Offers to serve the King witli 100 horse. Nuremberg,
4 Dec. 1523.” Staiber, who was in the service of Charles V, was buried in the abbey
church at Heilsbronn, near Ansbach; his arms are shown on a kind of circular
hatchment attached to the S. wall of the nave (see Heller, no. 1946).