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Hansa ships of the XIV^th and XV^th centuries.

From the reverse of the plate:

DESCRIPTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF HANSA SHIPS

1 and 3. Cologne ships of the year 1400.
2. Wismar ship
4. Lübeck ship
5. Danzig ship.
6. Elbing ship.

(1 and 3, after a Martyrdom of St. Ursula, painted about 1409, and now in the Wallraff-Richartz Museum at Cologne ; 2, 4 and 6, after impressions from seals in the Germanic National-Museum at Nuremberg; 2, after a seal bearing the inscription, Sigillum Wissemariensis civitatis ; 4, after a seal inscribed, Sigillum brugensium de Lubeke ; 5, after one inscribed, Sigillum burgensium in Dantzike ; and 6, after a seal bearing the inscription, Sigillum civitatis Elbingensis, Drawn by Willy Stöwer.)

Date

1902

Source

H.F. Helmolt, History of the World, Volume VII, Dodd Mead 1902. Plate between pages 32 and 33. Cleaned up by Micze

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Credited as "Original Drawings by Willy Stöwer"

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Willy Stöwer (1864 - 1931)

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