Sixteenth Century Northern Engraving & Etching
- Master MZ: Aristotle and Phyllis
- Dürer: Virgin & Child
- Dürer: Virgin & Child Crowned
- Dürer: Frederick the Wise
- Dürer: Saint Philip
- van Leyden: Triumph of David
- Zundt: Arrest of Baumgartner
- Hopfer: Charles V
- Beham: The Expulsion
- Beham: Mask Held by 2 Genii
- Beham: Mask Held by 2 Genii
- Brosamer: The Lute Player
- Pencz: Artemisia Preparing to Drink
- Pencz: Johann Friedrich
- Monogrammist CP : Dido
- Aldegrever: Dagger Sheath Design
- Aldegrever: Ornament with a Bat
- Hirschvogel: David's Triumph
- Hirschvogel: The Defeat and Death
- Claesz: Allegory with a Woman
- Massys: Two Crippled Musicians
- Cock: Colossaei
- Cock: Landscape with a Castle
- Ladenspelder: The Four Evangelists
- Brun: Two Turkish Men
- Suavius: Saint Paul Seated
- Delaune: Combat of the Centaurs
- Davent: Alexander Mastering Bucephalus
- Davent: Un Marais
- Thibaud: Hagar Gives Ishmael a Jug
- Woeiriot: Battaile de Constantin
- Galle: Solomon Building
- Sadeler: St. Paul at Corinth
- Wierex: Henry III
- Goltzius: Arnoud van Beresteyn
- Goltzius: Mercury and Argus
- Goltzius: A Young Man
- Collaert : January
- Collaert : Musical Celebration
- Collaert: David Playing the Harp
- van de Passe: Christian IV
- Muller: Belshazzar's Feast
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Etching, on iron, 1529, 223 x 155 mm., Bartsch 58 i/ii (?).
Fine impression, clearly better than the one in The Illustrated Bartsch (British Museum), on laid paper with a complex watermark, which may be a demi-griffon over a double shield and the initials VD, trimmed on or just inside the platemark, the subject and border complete. Apparently, no second state impressions (those with a number added in the 17th century by David Funck) are known to exist, so the plate may have been lost or destroyed before then, leaving this the only state. Extremely rare and one of Hopfer's greatest prints, the use of armor-like chasing as a background for the head very likely unique in etched portraiture. Charles V (1500-1558) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 through 1556 and King of Spain as Charles I. He was the grandson of Emperor Maximilian I and of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.