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Kölner Chronik [Cologne Chronicle]; Battle Scene
Primary
Workshop of Michael Wolgemut
(Nuremberg, Germany, 1434–1519)
Printer
Johann Koelhoff, the younger
(active)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Date1499
MediumLetterpress with woodcut
DimensionsSheet: 13 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (34 × 23.5 cm)
Image: 4 7/16 × 5 5/8 in. (11.3 × 14.3 cm)
Image: 4 7/16 × 5 5/8 in. (11.3 × 14.3 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1983.132.39
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1983.132.39/55
On View
Not on viewThe Cologne Chronicle is an ambitiously illustrated example of a German incunabulum, a term used to describe the earliest printed materials in Europe dating back to the fifteenth century. A Chronicle was a type of history that addressed events central to a specific city or region. This single leaf from the Cologne Chronicle depicts a battle between the armies of King Philip of Swabia and his longtime rival, King Otto IV of Saxony, which took place in 1206 near Cologne, as described in the accompanying text.
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