Noble woman of Nuremberg holding two coats of arms, 16th century.

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Noble woman of Nuremberg holding two coats of arms, 16th century. The Scheurl crest has a lion rampant on red field and the Tucher crest a negro head on gold field under bendy black and argent. The same crests and Latin title appear in a woodcut by Albrecht Durer, circa 1512. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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