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| Augustin Hirschvogel Self-portrait, with sphere and dividers 1548 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Head of a stag with horns sawn off 1547 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Coat-of-arms of Augustin Hirschvogel before 1553 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Portrait of Peter Perényi (1502-1548) Imperial official who commissioned illustrations from Hirschvogel ca. 1548 hand-colored etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Armorial Bookplate of Ladislaus von Edlasperg 1545 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Bear-hunt in Landscape 1545 etching British Museum |
'All Nature faithfully' – But by what feint
Can Nature be subdued to art's constraint?
Her smallest fragment is still infinite!
And so he paints but what he likes in it.
What does he like? He likes what he can paint!
– Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by E.H. Gombrich, from The Renaissance Theory of Art and the Rise of Landscape, first published in 1950, reprinted in the author's essay collection Norm and Form (London: Phaidon Press, 1966)
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Design for ornamental scabbard 1543 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Design for ornamental scabbard 1543 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Death of Cleopatra in a Landscape 1547 etching British Museum |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel after school of Raphael Massacre of the Innocents 1545 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Sin of Nadab and Abihu 1549 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled."
– from the book of Leviticus, chapter 10, in the Authorized or King James version of the Bible, 1611
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Flagellation of Christ in a Landscape 1549 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel Temptation of Christ in a Landscape 1548 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Augustin Hirschvogel The Good Samaritan 1549 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel Map of the Iberian Peninsula ca. 1553 painted rock-crystal and lapis lazuli, mounted in silver and brass Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |