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Print

1530-1562 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Virgil Solis (printmaker)
Place of origin
Nuremberg (printed)

An engraving depicting a group of five Landsknechts and a dog. One of the soldiers bears a standard, a second is drumming whilst another is playing the fife.


Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Engraving and etching
Paper
Engraving
Brief description
Print by Virgil Solis, a group of five Landsknechts, engraving, German, 1530-1562
Physical description
An engraving depicting a group of five Landsknechts and a dog. One of the soldiers bears a standard, a second is drumming whilst another is playing the fife.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 7.4cm
  • Cut to width: 12.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
'VS' (Signed with artist's monogram)
Subjects depicted
Soldiers
Dog
Standard Bearer
Drummer
Fife
Bibliographic references
  • Peters, Jane S., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 19 (Part 1). German masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis: Intaglio Prints and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 260.
  • Beaujean, Dieter., Hollstein’s German, engravings, etchings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Rotterdam: Sound and Vision Publishers, 2004): vol. 63, Virgil Solis, Part I, no.190.
  • de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no. 454.5.
  • Peters, Jane S., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, 19 (Part 1). German masters of the sixteenth century: Virgil Solis: Intaglio Prints and Woodcuts. New York: Abaris Books, 1985. No. 58.
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.293-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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