A Standard Bearer
Medium
Brush and black ink with white heightening
Dimensions
5 3/16 x 3 3/8 in. (13.1 x 8.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1997
Accession Number
1997.144
Tags
SwordsMenFlags
About the Artist
Erhard Schön|Anonymous, German, 16th century
He was famed as a popular printmaker, with attributions including around 1200 illustrations for 116 books and about 200 separate woodcuts. Among the best works are the woodcuts that he and Hans Springinklee made for the "Hortulus animae", published in Nuremberg in 1515 by Johannes Koberger. It was one of the most popular pre-Reformation anthologies of prayers, published in at least 20 German and L...