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Object Type
Museum number: 1872,0608.332
Description: The fourteen auxiliary saints ("Die vierzehn Nothelfer"); first of two sheets; in the centre is Christ on the cross with the Virgin and St John; to the left stand St Leonard, St Giles, St Blasius; to the right are St Erasmus, St Nicholas and St Vitus Woodcut with hand-colouring
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School/style
Production date: 1460-1470
Materials
Technique: woodcut; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 118 millimetres; Width: 134 millimetres
Curator's comments: The cut and the second sheet with the remaining eight auxiliay saints (registered as 1872-6-8-333) were originally placed above each other. Possibly they were engraved on the same block. Schreiber attributes the print to Suabia.
Bibliographic references: Schreiber 1926-1930 / Handbuch der Holz- und Metalschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts (1762); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (A.109(a))
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: St Leonard; Representation of: St Giles; Representation of: St Blaise; Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: St John the Evangelist; Representation of: St Erasmus; Representation of: St Nicholas of Myra; Representation of: St Vitus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Theodor Oswald Weigel (sale Leipzig 27.v.1872/110a); Purchased through: A Asher & Co
Acquisition date: 1872
Acquisition notes: 50 Marks
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0608.332

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