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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1865,0610.392
Title
Object:
Sancta.Elisabet.
Series:
Saints connected with the House of Habsburg
Description
St Elisabeth (Elizabeth of Hungary); an outdoor scene, a full-length figure of a nun distributing food to the poor, in her right hand holding a bread and in her left a decanter, on the left an angel accompanying a nude female (representing Elizabeth's soul?), on the right a group of beggars and a tree with a coat-of-arms, in the background a castle representing the Wartburg in Thuringia; in a volume with modern binding containing 87 woodcuts of Habsburg saints belonging to the series, from the first edition without text. 1516 Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Leonhard Beck
Block cut by:
Hans Taberith
(woodblock in the Albertina signed with cutter's name and dated 20 December 1516)
School/style
German
Production date
1516
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
235 millimetres
Width:
209 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
(31)
(Leonhard Beck)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(12.29)
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.136.136)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
Associated names
Representation of:
St Elizabeth of Hungary
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Frederick Startridge Ellis
Acquisition date
1865
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1865,0610.392