Things (Material, inanimate objects, mostly works of art, both preserved and unpreserved)
Iconography: [Ico703] Violent death by beheading and narrower iconographies
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ID Thing Type Category Technique Materials Function Image Width Height Depth Date description Date from Date to
[T58146]Conrad Schnitt (blockcutter), Head of Henry II the Pious. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia. Bschreibung aller Lender..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), 1544 (Munich, BSB), p. dxxix ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T5188]Conrad Schnitt (blockcutter), Head of Henry II the Pious. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 898 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T76135]Angel Bringing Bread to a Saint and the Beheading of a Bishop. In Johannes Geiler von Kaysersberg, Das Euangelibuch, Das buoch der Ewangelien durch das gantz iar. Mitt Predig vnd Ußlegunge[n] ..., Strasbourg: Johann Grüninger (printer), 1515 (Munich, BSB), fol. VIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T3241]Beheading of St John the Baptist. In Martin Luther, Auslegung der Euangelien, an den fürnemesten Festen, im gantzen jar ..., Leipzig: Nikolaus Wolrab (printer), 1545 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), fol. XLVIIv ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T45043]Head of Andrew Báthory. In Hieronymus Oertel, De Chronycke van Hungari, Amsterdam: 1619 (London, BL), fol. 292 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaper
[T45040]Head of Andrew Báthory. In Hieronymus Oertel, Chronologia Oder Historische beschreibung aller Kriegsempörungen..., Nuremberg: Johann Siebmacher (printer), 1603 (Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek), p. 458/459 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureengravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84601]Cornelis Huyberts (printmaker), Two Germanic Tribesmen on Horseback. In C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (printer), 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada), no 48 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetching, engravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84600]Germanic Tribesman Riding a Horse, Holding Spear with Severed Head of a Man (Germanus Eques Armatus). In C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (printer), 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada), no 47 ◼printing: impressionpage: figureetching, engravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T30492]Title-Page Border with Martyrdom Scenes. In Jan Utenhove, Jean Crespin, Historya o srogiem przesladowaniu Kośćioła Bożego, w ktorey są wypisane sprawy onych Męczennikow, ktorzy począwszy od Wiklefa y Husa, aż do tego naszego wieku ... prawdę Ewanyeliiey Swiętey krwią swą zapieczętowali ..., Cyprian Bazylik (translator), Brest: Cyprian Bazylik (printer), 17 May 1567 (Warsaw, BN), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and borderswoodcutpaperbook decoration: tailpiece
[T5230]Beheading. In Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae uniuersalis Lib. VI in quibus, iuxta certiores fidei scriptorum ..., Basel: Heinrich Petri (printer), January 1550 - March 1550 (Cracow, MNK, BCzart), p. 779 ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84783]Nicolaas van Geilenkercken (printmaker), [wanting: Germanic Tribesman Riding a Horse, Holding Spear with Severed Head of a Man]. In Philipp Clüver, Germaniae antiquae libri tres ... Adjectae sunt Vindelicia et Noricum, Leiden: Lowijs (I) Elzevier (printer), Officina Elzeviriana (printer), 1616 (London, Wellcome Collection), p. 364, fig. Iprinting: impressionpage: figureetching, engravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T86106]Headpiece (Hispanic War) - Battle of Munda. In C. Julii Caesaris quae extant, London: Jacob (I) Tonson (printer), 1712 (San Fernando, Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada), p. 455 ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and bordersetching, engravingpaperbook decoration: headpiece
[T84922]Cornelis Huyberts (printmaker), Two Germanic Tribesmen on Horseback. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, The commentaries of Caesar, William Duncan (translator), London: Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson (printer), 1753, No 47printing: impressionpage: figureetchingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T84902]Germanic Tribesman Riding a Horse, Holding Spear with Severed Head of a Man. In Gaius Iulius Caesar, The commentaries of Caesar, William Duncan (translator), London: Jacob (III) Tonson and Richard (II) Tonson (printer), 1753, No 46printing: impressionpage: figureetching, engravingpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T90127]Title Page: Pompey's Head Brought to Julius Caesar. In Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, De bello civili, Amsterdam: Officina Elzeviriana (printer), 1669 (Radom, Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna w Radomiu) ◼printing: impressionpage: marginalia and borderspaperbook decoration: front matter
[T45039]Memorial of Andrew Báthory. In Contrafeyungen vnd abbildungen ... nach erhaltenem Sig uber den Cardinal Andream Batthori..., Augsburg: Samuel Dilbaum (printer), 1599 - 1600 (Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie) ◼printing: impressionpage: figurehand colouring, woodcutpaper
[T85789]Florentz with the head of the Giant King. In Ein schöne vnd kurtzweylige Histori von Kayser Octauiano, seinem Weyb vnd zwayen Sünen, Wilhelm Salzmann (translator), Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner (printer attr.), 1543 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB), fol. L4v ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T85747]Florentz with the head of the Giant King. In Ein schöne vnd kurtzweylige Histori von Kayser Octauiano, seinem Weyb vnd zwayen Sünen, Wilhelm Salzmann (translator), Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner (printer attr.), 1543 (Wolfenbüttel, HAB), fol. A1r ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: front matter
[T7258]Hans Brosamer (printmaker), Herod's Banqued and Beheading of St John the Baptist. In Martin Luther, Auslegung der Euangelien, an den fürnemesten Festen, ym gantzen iare ..., Magdeburg: Michael Lotter (printer), 1529 (Halle (Saale), ULB), fol. CLIX ◼printing: impressionpage: figurewoodcutpaperbook decoration: illustration
[T85826]Germanic Tribesman Riding a Horse, Holding Spear with Severed Head of a Man (London, BM) ◼printing: impressionextracted pieceetching, engravingpaper240338