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Object Type
print
Museum number
E,9.145
Description
St Antony; standing in the left foreground, holding a book in his right hand and a bell and a staff with a large Tau cross in his left hand; at left a kneeling woman praying; at right a crippled man with crutches whose left arm is burning; suspended from a rail at the church at right a large number of votive offerings. Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Sebald Beham
Formerly attributed to:
Hans Weiditz
School/style
German
Production date
1520-1530
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
294 millimetres
Width:
225 millimetres
Curator's comments
The man with the burning arm suffering from St Antony's fire or erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection usually affecting the limbs or face which St Antony was said to cure. Dodgson suggests that this print was part of an early series of male saints. Although he considered it to be by Beham, the current consensus is that it is by Hans Weiditz, see A. Röver-Kann in New Hollstein, Beham (2024) R.61
Bibliographic references
Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte
(891)
(Alpha)
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(891)
(Alpha)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.465.115)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
Associated names
Representation of:
St Antony of Egypt
Acquisition date
1810
(before)
Acquisition notes
Laid down
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
E,9.145