Hansa ships of the xivth and xvth 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.
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