impression:T17137

Techniques and Reception of Prints in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th c.)

Things – T17137

Personification of Mars

(London, BM)

Details

printing: impression
engraving
paper
sheet h: 43 mm
sheet w: 29 mm

Matrices

Hans Sebald Beham (printmaker), Personification of Mars

Actors

Hans Sebald Beham (1500 - 22 November 1550) printmaker : ca 1539

Places

London, British Museum (1931,0511.12) storage place

Design

Hans Sebald Beham (printmaker), Personification of Mars Part of Beham's Personifications of Seven Planets ◼

In-Urus interactions

⇥ Crispin Scharffenberg (printmaker attr.), Personification of Mars (Szarfenberg) Part of Personifications of Seven Planets (Szarfenberg) ◼

Expert view

Iconography description

Mars and his children (personification of the planet) (Iconclass: 24C213)

Inscriptions, Markings and Mentions

Matrix inscriptions

References

Matrices' graphic catalogue entries

Bartsch: VIII.162.116
Hollstein German: III.74-75

Web resources

British Museum

Credits

Created on

2021-10-13 13:46

Edited by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec

Last update by

Grażyna Jurkowlaniec (2023-07-25 13:14)