16th century

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni tÿpus.

Covers northern Asia. Relief shown pictorially. From Abraham Ortelius's atlas: Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1603 ed. Hand col. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes tex... more

[Portrait of a youth, half length, facing slightly right]

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Title devised by Library staff. Drawing formerly attributed to Jan van Mechelen; Netherlands; 16th century. From Fritz Koreny, Albertina, Nov. 1996: ... more

[St. Eustace] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Meder, 60. Library has two impressions. No. 60a: Marsh Collection. No. 60b: Hubbard Collection.

[Deposition from the Cross]

Illus. in: Dit is vander Vruchten des Lijdes, Leiden, 1501 [bound with Saint Bonaventura, Soliloquium (Dutch), Leiden, 1499]. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444-B. This record contains unverified, old data from ... more

[Hroswitha (10th Century nun, poet, and chronicler) presenting her wor...

Woodcut by Albrecht Durer. Illus. in: Hroswitha's Opera, Nuremberg, 1501, frontis. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Nemesis (the great fortune)

Allegorical figure of winged goddess of divine retrobution. Engraving and etching by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 72; Hollstein 72; Bartsch 77; Panofsky 184. Signed with monogram on plate. Coll. mark on ver... more

16th century mechanized warfare

Photograph shows reproduction of engraving of mechanized catapult. Title from item. Received from the U.S. Office of Emergency Management.

Typus gramatic

Grammar represented as a woman with alphabet board and a key showing a youth the entrance to university building filled with students. Illus. in: Margarita philosophica / Gregor Reisch. Friburgi : I. Schott, 15... more

The Virgin and Child on a grassy bench

Engraving by Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Meder 31; Hollstein 31; Bartsch 34; Panofsky 141. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. mark on vereso: Hubbard (Lugt. suppl. 1267b). Hubbard Collection. This re... more

Typus arithmeticae

The form of arithmetic, possibly muse of arithmetic, shown as woman standing between Boethius writing Arabic numerals and Pythagorus doing reckoning with counters. Illus. in: Margarita philosophica / Gregor Rei... more

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

p. xciv - verso, v. 1. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Diptych of Adam & Eve with snake and priest celebrating Mass separated by Jesus on Cross. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505) p. ccxxix - verso, v. 2. Ref. cop... more

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

3 illus. on verso of title page, v. 1. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505). Ref. copy may be in LOT 4444 B. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Incunabula illustrations, 1505]

Jesus and two theives on crosses. Illus. in: Ulrich Pender, Der Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkrantz Marie (Nuremburg, 1505), p. cci - verso, v. 1. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Indians; Ships of Discovery

2 print title page. Illus. in: Amerigo Vespucci, De Ora Antartica per regem Portugallie inventa (Strassburg, 1505) (Hupfüff). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Papie sanctuarium.[Papie, Impressum pro Jacob de Burgofr¯acho, 1505][4...

Epiphanic medicorvm.[Norimbergae, 1506]

St. Christopher

Woodcut by Lukas Cranach the Elder, 1472-1553. Hollstein, 79 (later impression IIa? without inscriptions and with three breaks in the border; two on bottom and one at upper left); Bartsch, 58; LeBlanc, 12. Wate... more

Las CCC ... con su glosa, i Las cinqu¯eta c¯o su glosa, i otras obras....

[The visitation]

Print after Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Visitation, no. 8 in his Life of the Virgin series, shows the Virgin and St. Elizabeth, both pregnant, greeting each other as Zacharias stands in a doorway. Dürer's pet dog ... more

The Betrayal of Christ

From his Passion set. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 5; Hollstein 5; Bartsch 5; Panosfky 112. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso of Gardiner Green Hubbard. (Lugt suppl ... more

[Susanna and the elders]

Title from shelflist card. Collector's mark of John P. Heseltine (Lugt 1508). Bartsch, 33. Amand-Durand, 33. Hubbard Fund, 510020.

[St. George on horseback] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Cut at or within plate mark. Meder, 56. Hollstein, 56. Bartsch, 54. Panofsky, 161. Coll. mark on verso (Lugt 677). Library has two impressions... more

[Scene from the life of Catherine of Siena]

Illus. in: Caterina da Siena, Saint, Legend, Hier beghint die legede va Sinte Katherina vander Seyn, [Tantwerpen, Gheprent bi H. Eckert, van Hombroch, 1509. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record cont... more

Das ist der Teutsch Kalender mit den Figuren. [Augspurg, Getruckt von ...

[Illus. of Knights in armor fighting]

Illus. in: Die Distructie va Troyen. Gheprent Thantwerpen, ca. 1510-15. Reference copy may be in LOT 4250. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

St. Luke writing the Gospel

Miniature painting from Book of Hours, ca. 1510. Illus. in: Rare Book Division - Rosenwald Collection. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4397 T. See LCQJ July 1968. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

The presentation of the Child Jesus

Miniature painting from Book of Hours. Illus. in: Rare Book Division - Rosenwald Collection. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4444. See LCQJ July 1968. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Resurrection] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed on block with monogram. Great passion series. Library has two impressions. No. 124a: Marsh Collection. No. 124b: source unknown.

[St. Peter and a female saint (Religion?) in a sailboat]

Illus. in: Jean Lemaire de Belges' Les Illustrations deGaule ... (Lyon, 1511). Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Itinerarivm prouinciarum omni~u Antonini Augusti, cum Fragmento eiusde...

Ecce Homo

Jesus before his crucifixion. His [Durer's] Passion Set. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 10, Hollstein 10, Bartsch 10, Panofsky 117. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso o... more

[An illustration of the Ptolemaic concept of the universe showing the ...

Woodcut from Jan Glogowczyk's Introductarium copendiosum in Tractatu...Cracow, 1513. Reference copy may be available in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracin... more

[The knight, Death, and the Devil] / AD [monogram].

Title from mount. Hubbard Collection. Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 186.

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish]

Illus. in: Tbouck vā wondre, Brussels, 1513. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Fish (Symbolism); Knights; Shelf.

The bagpiper

Cut within plate mark. Engraving by Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528. Meder 90, Hollstein 90, Bartsch 91, Panofsky 198. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Coll. marks on verso of LC: Gardiner Green Hubbard (Lugt... more

Illus. of man slicing bread (making communion wafers?) and of a hawk, ...

Illus. in: Hortus sanitatis [minor], Dè grotè herbari (The great Herbarium), Antwerpen, Gheprint bi C. de Graue, 1514. Reference copy may be in LOT 4638 C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption... more

[St. Jerome in his study] / AD [monogram].

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Library has two impressions. No. 59a: Coll. mark: Possibly Baron H.A. von Derschau (Lugt, 2510). Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection. No. 59b: Co... more

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88

The resurrection

Print shows Jesus, dressed in a shroud, stepping out of his tomb as it rests in a cave. On the right, the women weap, and on the left, the guards tumble over each other in fright. Title from Graphic sampler / ... more

[Decorated initial with bearded man pointing up to the sun, moon, and ...

St. Peter preaching the gospel

Print shows the apostle Peter, at left, with arm extended, preaching to a group. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979,... more

Ceiling with three angels / IV.R.,IVE.

Print shows three angels in flight just below a ceiling, surrounded by columns. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, ... more

[St. Christopher with infant Christ]

Title from shelflist card. Stains. Altdorfer, 85. Hubbard Collection.

[The desperate man]

Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Probably an experimental plate or sketch plate; profile of man at far left may be a portrait of Dürer's brother Endres. Meder, 95 Hollstein, 95 Bartsch, 70 Panofsky, 177

The death of Ananias / Raphael Urbinas, perugo da carpo.

Print shows Ananias lying on the ground in front of the disciples and other observers. The disciple Peter condemns him for telling a lie. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Pho... more

Venus and cupids / perugo da carpo.

Print shows Venus standing among a group of cupids. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally ... more

De Terre motu

Buildings moving and spire toppling in an earthquake. Illus. and text in: Margarita philosophica noua / Gregor Reisch. [Ex Argentoraco veteri, J. Gruningerus, 1515]. Published in: The tradition of science / Leo... more

The justices of peas.

The Annunciation

Illus. in: Jacobus de Varagine, Passionael, Antwerp, 1516. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444-B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; BI WORKS; Bible,; RBD; Shelf.

St. Martin dividing his cloak

Full page with illus. of man painting madonna and another making engra...

Illus. in: Hortulus anime cum alijs ... [Lugduni, 1516], verso of p. CXI. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - ARTISTS AT WORK. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artists at work.

[Shepherd with bagpipes gazing at heavens, with sheepdogs, sheep and w...

Illus. in: Der scaepherders kalengier. Antwerp : Gheprent bij W. Vosterman, 1516. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 24.

[Process of distilling water]

[Incunabula illus. of woman (St. Bridget) in prayer]

Illus. in: Hortulus Animae...(Lugduni, 1517). Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr.). This record contains unverified data from caption card.

[Illus. poem showing mountain landslide threatening 3 horsemen]

Woodcut on vellum by Hans Schaufrerlein. Illus. in: Theuerdank, Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen...(Nürnberg, Schönsperger [1517], pl. 36). Reference copy may be in SSF... more

Die distellacien e¯u virtuyten der water¯e.Liber de distillandi, de si...

[Several scenes from the New Testament]

Illus. in: Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual. Breviary. German, Das deutsch römisch Breuier, Unedig, Gregoriu de Gregorijs, 1518. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444 B. This record contains unverified, old data... more

[St. Veronica receiving Eucharist from Christ]

Illus. in: Isidoro Isolani, Inexplicabilis mysterii gesta Beatae Veronicae, Medolani, 1518. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI WORKS; Bible, NT; RBD: BI; Shelf.

[Deposition from the Cross]

Illus. in: Fascicula mirre..., Antwerp, 1518. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444-B. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Bible, NT; Shelf.

[Knight in armor, with lower body of fish; bordered with hunting scene...

Illus. in: Pedro Ximenez de Prexano, Dat licht der Kerste, Brussels, 1518. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fish (Symbolism)... more

[Actors portraying Jupiter and Alcmena in a stage setting]

Illus. in: Comoediae by Plantus. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The sacrifice of Abraham

Print shows Abraham raising a sword against his son, Isaac. Anonymous artist fter Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photograp... more

The Virgin in an oval

Print shows the Virgin Mary seated with a child in her lap. Anonymous artist after Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photogra... more

[Printing press of Joducus Badius with three workers in shop]

Illus. in: Epistolae / Gullaume Bude. Parisiis : Venudantur in officina I. Baddii, 1520. Ref. copy in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 12.

[Madonna with the pear]

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 18. Pauli, 19. Coll. marks: Paul J. Sachs (Lugt, 2091) and Baron Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt, 2773). Hubbard Fund, 410096-1.

[Halberdier on horseback]

The rest on the flight into Egypt

Print shows Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus taking nourishment from a tree, assisted by several angels, on their journey to Egypt.

[The elaborate device of Franz Birckmann, a Cologne bookseller, showin...

Illus. in: Opera of St. Cyrillus (1520). Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

The sacrifice

Print shows the Roman knight Mutius Scaevola putting his hand into a flame while a group of Etruscans stands by. Anonymous artist after Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic samp... more

The virgin, child and St. John

Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background. After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints a... more

[Bird's-eye view of a large scale water supply system showing tunnels ...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: De architectura / Vitruvius Pollio ; tr. & ed. by Cesare Cesariano. [Como : Impressa p G. de Pōte, a la spese e instantia del magnifico d. A. Gallo e del nobile d. A. ... more

[St. Christopher, facing right] / AD [monogram].

Saint Christopher walking across river with child on his back, hermit in background. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection (Library of Congress). Hollstein, 52. Meder, 52. ... more

[Architectural elements, floor plan, and elevation from handbook on cl...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: De architectura / Vitruvius Pollio ; tr. & ed. by Cesare Cesariano. [Como : Impressa p G. de Pōte, a la spese e instantia del magnifico d. A. Gallo e del nobile d. A. ... more

[Milan Cathedral, plan, elevation, and architectural elements from han...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: De architectura / Vitruvius Pollio ; tr. & ed. by Cesare Cesariano. [Como : Impressa p G. de Pōte, a la spese e instantia del magnifico d. A. Gallo e del nobile d. A. ... more

[Two illustrations showing a unicorn and several apes]

Illus. in: Hudson, Hortus sanitatis, London, 1521. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Incunabula; Animals Apes; Unicorn. Sources checked and other information on... more

[Cosmographical chart]

No ref. copy. Illus. in: Petrus Apianus, Cosmogra...1524. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cosmography; Pub. Ind.

[Portrait of Lucas van Leyden] / L [monogram].

Title from caption card. Signed with monogram and dated on plate. No call number on caption card

[Design by Albrecht Dürer for 16th century fortification]

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Etliche Underricht zu Befestigung der Stett, Schloss und Flecken / Albrecht Dürer. [Nürenberg : 1527]. Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western... more

[Charles, Duke of Vendosmoys, seated at desk, writing]

Illus. in: Nicole Gilles, Les Tres Elegantes...1527. Reference copy may be in LOT 4966. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

[Four views of heads with proportions delineated in perspective grids,...

Illus. and text in: Hierin sind begriffin vier Bucher von menschlichen Proportion / Albrecht Durer. [Nurenberg : Gedrucky durch I. Formschneyder, auff Verlegung Albrecht Durers velassen Witib], 1528. Published ... more

[Death-bed scene]

Illus. in: Joannes de Ketham, Fasciule medicine, Tantwerpen, 1529. Reference copy may be in LOT 4399. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Death Death bed; BI WORK... more

[Man seated, seen from behind]

Print shows a man, possibly Narcissus, seated on a rock in a glade, turned away from a woman, possibly Echo. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington ... more

Fortitude

Allegorical print showing a seated woman holding onto a column. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print... more

The philosopher Diogenes and the allegory of astronomy

Allegorical print showing a seated man thinking and another figure looking at a globe. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress,... more

Diana hunting the stag

Allegorical print showing the Roman goddess Diana with hunting dogs; on the left, two dogs have caught the stag. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washing... more

[Opening page of Aphorismi, with decorated initial V]

Illus. in: Aphorismi / Hippocrates. Parisi : Apud S. Colinaeum, 1530, p. 2. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 127.

[Interior of a metallurgist's workshop with furnace and implements of ...

Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Voarchadvmia contra alchi'miam: ars distincta ab archimi'a, & sophia: cum additionibus: proportionibus: numeris: & figuris opportunis. Venetiis : 1530. Published in: T... more

The philosopher

Allegorical print showing a man sitting in a chair, thinking. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. After P... more

[Self-portrait, aged 28]

Title from shelflist card. Signed with monogram on plate. Bartsch, 188, 245. Hollstein, 188. Inscription, above: Aldegrevers hec est ... anno sue aetatis XXVIII; inscription, below: Anno domini MDXXX. Coll. mar... more

Pallas

Print showing Pallas, one of the Greek titans, holding a shield. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attr... more

St. John

Print showing Saint John carrying a goblet. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Attributed to Antonio da ... more

[Telescoping siege machine]

Print shows a telescoping tower raised from beneath by a screw mechanism manipulated by two men, used during siege warfare to gain an advantage of height by those perpetrating the siege. Title devised by Librar... more

[Underwater breathing apparatus]

Print shows a device with a long tube for breathing, worn over the head, to allow a soldier to walk underwater; also shows the device being used in the background. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Fl.... more

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis

World map with ornate border design natives hunting and cannibailzing; elephant; serpent; sea monster. Illus. in: "Mappondo de Johann Huttich" from the 1532 Basel edition of Novus Orbis Regionum. No reference c... more

[Air mattress made from animal skins]

Print shows two soldiers resting on an air mattress made by sewing together and inflating animal skins. Title devised by Library staff. Illus. in: Fl. Vegetii Renati De re militari libri qvatuor. Lutetiae : Apu... more

[Seven horses in a wood] / Baldung, 1534.

Title from shelflist card. Signed and dated on block. Bartsch, 56. LC purchase, 1158.

The Fall of Babylon

Illus. in: The Luther Bible of 1535, pl. CXCIII. No ref. copies. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible.

[Jan van Leyden]

Title from shelflist card. Bartsch, 182. Hubbard Collection.

Medice, cura te ipsum. Tu congnoy's bien la maladie ...

2 people and skeleton (symbol of death) in laboratory. Woodcut by Hans Lutzelburger after drawing by Hans Holbein? Illus. in: Dance of Death, 1538, recto of leaf F1. Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - DEATH. This re... more