Triumph of Maximilian.

Woodcut, 41,6 x 50,7 cm, laid paper, unsigned (some stains and offprint, unobtrusive vert. folding crease at middle, reinforced on verso).

Under passe-partout.

Noblemen (foreign ambassadors) with their horses, topped with banderolles. The complete series of woodblocks (139 blocks) was one of the most ambitious print enterprises to have been undertaken by Emperor Maximilian I, as a means of self-agrandising propaganda. The majority of the blocks were designed by Bugkmair, but also other German artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Leonard Beck and Hans Springinklee were involved in the project. A reprint of the original woodblock (now in the collection of the Albertina in Vienna) of 1883-1884, by Adolf Holzhausen (4th state). Numbered at upper right: 134.
Ref. Bartsch 81. - German Hollstein 104-125.
Prov. Albert Van Loock (stamp on verso, Lugt 3752).