Engraving, circa 1501. 356x262 mm; 14x10 1/4 inches, thread margins. A very good, well-inked and dark Meder h impression with strong contrasts. Single-headed eagle watermark (Meder 224, which he dates from the first quarter of the 1600s). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark.
According to Bartsch and later Dürer (1471-1528) cataloguers, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612), renowned as a patron of the arts and for his Kunstkammer (artistic cabinet of curiosities), owned the original copper plate for this engraving and had it gold-plated, then continued to have impressions printed from it for collectors during the early 1600s. Bartsch 57; Meder 60.
