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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1920,0430.5
Title
Series:
Saints connected with the House of Habsburg
Description
St Veronus; the large-scale saint dressed as a pilgrim and holding a staff standing outside a farmhouse, where a woman is pouring liquid from a churn. A coat of arms on the right. c.1516-8 Woodcut
Producer name
Print made by:
Leonhard Beck
School/style
German
Production date
1516-1518
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
Dimensions
Height:
237 millimetres
Width:
212 millimetres
Curator's comments
Note the scale of the saint as compared to the rest of the image. See Curatorial Comment for 1852,0612.31.
Bibliographic references
New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700
(112)
(Leonhard Beck)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700
(12.110)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur
(VII.240.82)
(1799: 112)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(II.137.105a)
(II.56)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
Associated names
Representation of:
St Veronus
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Charles Hazelwood Shannon
Acquisition date
1920
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1920,0430.5