Allegory of the Augsburg Confession

Etching, 1738, drawn, engraved and published in Augsburg by Johann August Corvinus (1683-1738).

Allegorical sheet commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession under Emperor Charles V (1530). Includes a very rich allegorical apparatus, with the reading of the Augsburg Confession, a general view of the city, and the 28 articles of the Augsburg Confession in symbols.

The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Protestant Reformation. The Augsburg Confession was written in both German and Latin and was presented by a number of German rulers and free-cities at the Diet of Augsburg on 25 June 1530. The Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, had called on the Princes and Free Territories in Germany to explain their religious convictions in an attempt to restore religious and political unity in the Holy Roman Empire and rally support against the Ottoman invasion in the 16th-century Siege of Vienna. It is the fourth document contained in the Lutheran Book of Concord.

Beautiful proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, with thin margins or trimmed to the platemark, in good condition.