Expostulation Deutschlands gegen Kaiser Karl V. 1546 ∙ Nachrichten
A 1555 German printed and hand-coloured book, attributed to Johann Schradin, whose pages present a sixteenth-century ruler's titles and heraldry for a German readership. The first picture shows a painted portrait bust of a bearded man in a cap and ornate collar beneath a double-headed eagle crest and gilt lettering, while the second shows a mounted rider on a white horse in a red-trimmed saddle cloth beneath a dense block of text and a small coat of arms. A designer might draw on the heraldic crest, the framed lettering panels, and the ochre and red colour washes that give these early printed pages their handmade character.
