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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1854,1020.1351
Description
St James the Greater; seated at a table at centre, underneath a vine trellis, wearing his pilgrim's hat with scallop shell; landscape background; taken from Luther's German Bible, N. Wolrab, Leipzig, 1541, vol. 2. c. 1540 Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Published by:
Nicolaus Wolrab
School/style
German
Production date
1535-1541
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
260 millimetres
(borderlines)
Width:
158 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Suite of seven woodcuts with the four evangelists and three apostles sitting in rooms (Hollstein 1-7).The entire set is extant at the BM. The series was also used in Wolrab's Latin Bible editions of 1541 and 1544. For an impression from the Latin Bible, see 1875,0710.242.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(7)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(II.341.7)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
Associated names
Representation of:
St James the Greater
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Fürst Karl von Paar, Freiherr auf Hartberg und Krottenstein
(estate of)
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(13.vii.1854)
Purchased through:
A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date
1854
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1854,1020.1351