print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1865,0610.318
Title: Object: Sanctus. Leopoldus; Series: Saints connected with the House of Habsburg
Description: St Leopold; standing under an arch with buildings in the background, holding a model of a church in his right hand and a sword in his left; in a volume with modern binding containing 87 woodcuts from the series of Habsburg saints, from the first edition without text. Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Leonhard Beck; Block cut by: Jost de Negker (woodblock in the Albertina signed with cutter's name and dated 24 November 1516)
School/style
Production date: 1516
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 235 millimetres; Width: 210 millimetres
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Curator's comments: One of 87 woodcuts from the earliest edition of 'Saints connected with the House of Habsburg' without text, bound in one volume 1865,0610.312 through 1865,0610.398
Bibliographic references: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (67) (Leonhard Beck); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (12.65); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.240.82) (as Burgkmair); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (II.134.62)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1865
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1865,0610.318

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