broadside; print

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Object Type: broadside; print
Museum number: 1932,0312.7
Title: Object: Divo Colomanno martyri sancto
Description: Broadside on St Coloman; printed on two sheets; on left sheet below the title a woodcut of the saint as a whole-length figure in frontal view, dressed as a pilgrim, with the coats of arms of the empire, the archduchy of Austria, of Scotland and of Stabius in the corners; on right sheet 124 lines of letterpress verse in Latin by Johann Stabius describing the martyrdom, miracles and veneration of the saint. (Nuremberg: 1513)
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer; Formerly attributed to: Hans Springinklee; Printed by: Johann Weyssenburger
School/style
Production date: 1513
Production place: Printed in: Nuremberg
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 259 millimetres (Borderline); Height: 301 millimetres (Sheet size); Width: 205 millimetres (Per sheet c.); Width: 167 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Dodgson attributes this print to Springinklee, as does Meder, while Schoch states that the figure is drawn too well to have been designed by Springinklee. BM also has a later impression without text, see 1895,0122.683. The printer Weissenburger is taken from German STC.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (p.194) (Placed with Meder 232); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (Cf. I.381.2) (as Springinklee); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.234.2) (as Dürer); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.137.106)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Illustration to: Johann Stabius; Representation of: St Coloman
Associated places: Associated with: Stockerau
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1932
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1932,0312.7

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