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Coat of Arms of Rohrbach and Eilge von Holzhausen

A work made of engraving in black on buff laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of engraving in black on buff laid paper.

Date:

after 1470

Artist:

Monagrammist b. g. (German, active ca. 1470–90)
after Master of the Housebook (German, active c. 1470-1500)

About this artwork

This unidentified German artist signed his prints with a monogram. Here he may have copied a coat of arms designed by the more famous, yet equally mysterious Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. Originally this work was interpreted as commemorating the 1466 marriage of Bernhard von Rohrbach and Adelgunde von Holzhausen. However, this Frankfurt family adopted the helmet on their crest in 1470; the couple’s son likely commissioned the sheet as a bookplate. When the engraving plate was rediscovered in the Holzhausen family archives in Frankfurt in 1856, a large edition was printed, of which this impression is one example.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Monogrammist b. g.

Title

Coat of Arms of Rohrbach and Eilge von Holzhausen

Place

Bavaria (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1470–1485

Medium

Engraving in black on buff laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 9.6 × 9.2 cm (3 13/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Sheet: 9.9 × 9.3 cm (3 15/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection

Reference Number

1934.439

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