Artist: possibly, Hans Schaufelein, (German, c.1482-1539/1540), painter and designer of woodcuts and glass-paintings. Strongly influenced by Albrecht Dürer, in whose studio in Nuremberg he worked from c. 1503. The more than thirty woodcuts for "Laienspiegel" created by the monogrammist HF and by Hans Schäufelein are known.
Title: Lehnseid (Oath of fealty). Print from Laienspiegel by Ulrich Tengler.
Dimensions: 8" x 5 7/8".
Date: XVI C.
Materials and Techniques: Woodcut on paper letterpress verso. This is a copy in reserve after the woodcut from 1512 ed.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Worn paper, water stains, remnants of support verso. Signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: page XXI in the edition of 1518. The work was important enough to pass through 14 editions in the 16th century. "Der neue Layen-Spiegel", frequently known as "The New Layen-Spiegel," is a book of legal statutes. Its title is "Von rechtmässigen ordnungen in Burgerlichen und peinlichen regimenten". Originally published: 1514.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: German School XVI C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia.
Currently, we have the same woodcut from the edition of 1538. (WOP-766).