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Imperial Coat of Arms of Charles V

Artist: Workshop of Miguel de Eguía (active between 1524 and 1538)
Title: Imperial Coat of Arms of Charles V
Date: 1530
Medium: Woodcut. Used as title page illustration for Obra compuesta por Lucio Marineo Siculo coronista d[e] sus Majestades de las cosas memorables de España. Alcalá de Henares: Miguel de Eguía, 1530. Republished in 1533 and, by Iuan de Brocar, in 1539.
Photo Source: Biblioteca José María Arriola Arana / Iberlibros
Note: A very similar woodcut was used earlier in the title page of La quarta relación que Fernando Cortes […] envio al […] señor don Carlos emperador[.] Toledo: Gaspar de Ávila, 1525.
Item: 4661A