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Object Type: print
Museum number: E,2.330
Description: St Augustine; standing in right foreground, pointing at a heart pierced with an arrow; at left a small boy (the Christ Child) trying to empty a pool of water with a spoon; at far right another monk looking at an apparition of the Trinity in the sky; landscape background with a large monastery at left; another impression. 1518 Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Wolf Traut
School/style: German
Production date: 1518
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut
Dimensions: Height: 288 millimetres; Width: 206 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For another impression, see 1867,1012.377.
Bibliographic references: Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.523.10) (Cf.); Passavant 1860-64 / Le Peintre-Graveur (III.203.245)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: christian saint/martyr
Associated names: Representation of: St Augustine of Hippo; Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Trinity
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
Acquisition date: 1834
Acquisition notes: Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,2.330

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