print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1865,0610.370
Title: Object: Sanctus. Colomanus.; Series: Saints connected with the House of Habsburg
Description: St Colomanus (Coloman); a landscape with a full-length figure of a pilgrim standing next to a tree, holding in his left hand a stick and in his right a belt (?), in the background buildings, in the left foreground a coat-of arms and a crown; in a volume with modern binding containing 87 woodcuts from the series of Habsburg saints, from the first edition without text. 1516 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Leonhard Beck; Block cut by: Willem Liefrinck (woodblock in the Albertina signed with cutter's name and dated 21 Nov 1516)
School/style: German
Production date: 1516
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 234 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 (21) (Leonhard Beck); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (12.19); 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.136.114); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (11) (Liefrinck)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christian saint/martyr
Associated names: Representation of: St Coloman
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Frederick Startridge Ellis
Acquisition date: 1865
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1865,0610.370

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