print
- Museum number
- 1861,1109.653
- Description
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St Martin; the saint is sitting on a horse facing left; beggar below right and a fortress in the background
Woodcut with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1480-1490
- Dimensions
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Height: 53 millimetres
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Width: 42 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The cut is attached to one out of ten leaves from a Flemish MS. book of prayers, dated by Schreiber about 1480-90 and Ghent being suggested as their place of origin. Nine out of these form a series as they are uniform in style (Schr. 1230a, 1262b, 1332d, 1413c, 1593m, 1634c, 1668a, 1693b). Dodgson notes that the tenth cut (Schr. 2699) has no connection with the others.
Mounted with Schr. 1634c and 1668a
Kathryn Rudy has identified 1861,1109.632 - 693 as belonging to a book of hours in the BL (Add Mss 24332) written by a scribe (probably Jan van Emmerick) at a monastery of Franciscan beghards dedicated to St Matthew and St Bartholomew in Maastricht, shortly before 1500. See K. Rudy, Image, Knife and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019): p. 85, e-fig. 50.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1109.653