Hemelkaart van het noordelijk halfrond, Albrecht Dürer, after Conrad Heinfogel, 1515

Title(s)

Hemelkaart van het noordelijk halfrond
Imagines coeli septentrionales (title on object)
Sterrenkaarten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-1493

Catalogue reference

• Meder 260-1(2)
• Bartsch 152

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Albrecht Dürer
• after design by: Conrad Heinfogel
• publisher: Johann Stabius
• Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
• Johann Stabius
• Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor)

Dating

1515

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 430 mm × width 430 mm

What

• stars, represented symbolically or allegorically
• star-chart, star map
• armorial bearing, heraldry

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Albrecht Dürer, Rainer Schoch, Dl. 2, p. 430, cat.nr. 243
• Le peintre graveur, Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, Dl. 7, p. 161, cat.nr. 152