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Sebald Beham

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Engraving of a winged woman embracing a lamb beside a snarling grotesque creature, with two cherubs above and the word Patien

Patience

1540

Engraving of Hercules lifting and squeezing the giant Antaeus among rocks, with a tree and a Latin inscription.

Hercules Wrestling Antaeus

1545

Engraving of Hercules fighting centaurs, with clubs, shields and rearing horse bodies in a dense battle scene.

Hercules Fighting the Centaurs

1542

Engraving of the nude figure Lucretia holding a dagger beside a stone column, with the date 1519 in the upper right.

Lucretia

1519

Pen drawing in lunette shape: a woman hands bread from baskets to beggars, a pilgrim with staff, and a child.

Die Hungrigen speisen: Eine Frau verteilt Brote an drei Bettler, einen Pilger und ein Kind

Engraving of Hercules leading the three-headed dog Cerberus on a chain past burning ruins and stone blocks.

Hercules Capturing Cerberus

1545

Engraving of Hercules on horseback fighting armored warriors and horses in a crowded battle, with a Latin inscription above.

Hercules Fighting the Trojans

1545

Engraving of Hercules holding a club and lion skin as a servant offers him a cloth before classical columns.

Lichas Presenting Hercules with the Poisoned Tunic

Woodcut-style print of a couple seated in a garden among trees and a fence, the woman wearing a large headdress.

Couple of Lovers in a Garden

1522

Engraving of Hercules standing beside a burning pyre with a figure in flames, smoke above, and a city in the distance.

The Death of Hercules

1548

Engraving of a winged putto standing on a sphere, holding a heraldic shield, with a crowned helmet beside him.

Female Genius Holding a Coat of Arms

1535

Engraving of a nude winged putto holding a shield and helmet, with a sphere at his feet.

Male Genius Holding a Coat of Arms

1535

Circular pen and grey wash drawing of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, with a priest holding the infant at an altar.

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

early to mid-16th century

Pen and wash drawing in a circle of the Circumcision of Christ, with a priest holding the infant and the Virgin watching.

The Circumcision of Christ

1510-50

Pen drawing of a seated bishop saint with a mitre, halo, crozier and book, with dense hatched robes.

Saint Nicholas

Engraving of a winged putto pushing through curling ribbon banners carrying the alphabet, 1542, by Sebald Beham.

Genius with the Alphabet

1542

Engraving of a jester with a bauble staff surrounded by curling banners with German inscriptions, dated 1542.

The Little Buffoon

1542

Black and white print of an ornamental frieze with two tritons and scrolling sea creatures around a central motif.

Ornamental Frieze with Two Battling Tritons

1520/25

Engraving of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on a crescent, surrounded by radiating lines and a halo, dated 1520.

The Virgin and Child on the Crescent

1520

Pen and ink drawing of a seated king on a dais with soldiers and a standing envoy before columns and an arched niche.

Der römische Gesandte Popilius Lenas vor dem Syrerkönig Antiochos Epiphanes

Engraving of two winged sea figures blowing horns beside a central urn, framed by scrolling acanthus ornament.

Ornament with Two Tritons, from Four Vignettes

c. 1544

Small engraved ornament print with a nude figure between two storks in a scrolled architectural frame, on cream paper.

Ornamentprent met naakte figuur en twee ooievaars

1510

Engraving of a reclining nude figure and a kneeling figure beside rocks, with castle ruins and hills in the distant landscape

Penance of St. John Chrysostomus

n.d.

Black and white print of a crowded village fair with church, castle, feasting, dancing, jousting horsemen and a maypole.

The Large Village Fair

1535

Engraving of a fool in a bell cap and a foolish woman with ear-like hood talking on a bench by a fence.

The Fool and the Foolish Woman

n.d.

Engraving of Hercules on a rearing horse with a warrior, horses, and fallen nude figures in a battle scene.

Hercules and Iole, from The Labors of Hercules

1544

Engraving of two seated couples under a tree with a jester in a feathered cap leaning between them.

Two Couples and the Buffoon

1535

Engraving of a winged woman in robes with a crab and a grinning demon beside her under falling rays of light.

Misfortune

c. 1541

Engraving of a grotesque mask in a cartouche flanked by two winged putti holding foliage and ribbons, dated 1544.

Ornament with a Mask Held by Two Genii

1544

Engraving of a peasant man in a fur hat beside a broken wooden fence, with a scroll reading DAS SCHADET NIT above him.

The Weather-Peasant "Das Schadet Nit"

c. 1542

Engraving of peasants brawling with swords and sticks beside a fence and vine trellis, with a banner inscription above.

Peasants' Brawl, plate 9 from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

1547

Engraving of a garden banquet with a couple embracing, a round table of food and drink, and a fence and tree behind.

The Prodigal Son Wasting his Fortune, plate two from The History of the Prodigal Son

1540