Coat of Arms of Rohrbach and Eilge von Holzhausen
after 1470
Medium
Engraving in black on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 9.6 × 9.2 cm (3 13/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Sheet: 9.9 × 9.3 cm (3 15/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
19497
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This unidentified German artist signed his prints with a monogram. Here he may have copied a coat of arms designed by the more famous, yet equally mysterious Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. Originally this work was interpreted as commemorating the 1466 marriage of Bernhard von Rohrbach and Adelgunde von Holzhausen. However, this Frankfurt family adopted the helmet on their crest in 1470; the couple’s son likely commissioned the sheet as a bookplate. When the engraving plate was rediscovered in ...