Antique Print-KING-PHILIP-CASTILE-SURRENDER-Beck-1512-1516

King Philip received at Castile and sworn to loyalty.

Made by Leonard Beck after own design.

Medium: Woodcut on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.2 x 23.6 cm (7.95 x 9.29 inch). Image size: 19.4 x 22 cm. (7.64 x 8.66 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Slight paper loss at top right. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

KING-PHILIP-CASTILE-SURRENDER | PCO-C22-2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Part of a historical work on Emperor Maximilian published in 1775. Number 147 in a series of 236.

Reference: Hollstein 73 (147).

Biography engraver: Leonhard Beck (c.1480-1542) was a painter and designer of woodcuts in Augsburg, Germany. He was the son of Georg Beck. His father was active as a miniaturist in Augsburg c.1490-1512/15. Leonhard worked with his father on two Psalters for the Augsburg monastery in 1495. He was an assistant to Hans Holbein the Elder. He assisted in 1500-1501 on a Holbein altarpiece which is now in the St?del in Frankfurt am Main.