Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page] Fernandus Rex hyspanie

Accession number: 
0229
Record number: 
0229-3
JCB call number: 
H494 V476i
Image title: 
[Title page] Fernandus Rex hyspanie
Place image published: 
[Basel]
Image publisher: 
[Johann Bergname de Olpel]
Image date: 
1494
Image function: 
illustration; recto leaf [1]
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
11 cm.
Image dimension width: 
7.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
14.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Portrait of King Ferdinand of Spain holding a banner and two royal coats of arms.
Source creator: 
Verardi, Carlo, 1440-1500
Source Title: 
[Historia Baetica] In laudem serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispania[rum] regis, Bethicae [et] regni Granatae
Source place of publication: 
Basel
Source publisher: 
I[ohann] B[ergmann de Olpel]
Source date: 
1494
notes: 
The coat of arms on the right is the shield of Castile and Leon. The shield on the left, with eight pomegranates, represents Granada which was conquered by Spain in 1492.
Time Period: 
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Ferdinand V, King Of Spain, 1452-1516--Portraits