[from 'The Triumph of Maximilian I']
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1512 - 1519
Maker: Hans Burgkmair
Printer: Hans Burgkmair
Dimensions:
Image: 240 x 377 mm (24 x 37.7 cm)
Sheet: 385 x 547 mm (38.5 x 54.7 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on laid paper
Object number: P.112
DescriptionThis is the left hand companion piece to P.110 (113 in the series) and is number 114 in the Triumph sequence. As P.110 does, this print 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 section 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 only just visible and helps date this print to the 1526 edition.
