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

Title(s)

Hemelkaart van het zuidelijk halfrond
Imagines coeli meridionales (title on object)
Sterrenkaarten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-1494

Catalogue reference

• Meder 259-2(4)
• Bartsch 152-2(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

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

Dating

1515

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 455 mm × width 431 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. 244
• Le peintre graveur, Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, Dl. 7, p. 161, cat.nr. 152