[from 'The Triumph of Maximilian I']
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1512 - 1519
Maker: Hans Burgkmair
Printer: Hans Burgkmair
Dimensions:
Image: 235 x 377 mm (23.5 x 37.7 cm)
Sheet: 380 x 572 mm (38 x 57.2 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on laid paper
Object number: P.110
DescriptionThis is the right hand companion piece to P.112 (number 114 in the sequence) and is number 113 in the series of 137 prints for the 'Triumph'Depicts a group of courtesans holding statues of (what appears to be) a winged female figure. This may be Nike (or Victory, the Greek Goddess of 'triumph'?) Everyone, including the statues, wears laurel wreath crowns. Treitszaurwein's commentary for this sction of the Triumph (as dictated to him by the Emperor) is as follows: "Then follow two groups, ten people in each, every man carrying a statue of a woman with angel's wings; each of these women carries a palm or some other symbol of triumph." An Imperial watermark (a double headed eagle) is visible and helps date this print (and it's companion piece, P.110) to the 1526 edition. NB This print and P.112 come directly after P.109 and P.113 (111 and 112 in the Triumph series)
