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Object Type
print
Museum number
E,8.168-170
Description
A hunting scene with Diana and Actaeon; landscape with a stag hunt with dogs and nets at right; various hunters on horseback in right foreground and a castle in left background; at left, secluded in a small clearing in woods, Diana and nymphs bathing with Actaeon turning into a stag attacked by his dogs; printed from three blocks; late impression with vertical cracks, especially at right. Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name
Print made by:
Georg Pencz
Formerly attributed to:
Sebald Beham
School/style
German
Production date
1530
(circa)
Materials
paper
Technique
woodcut
letterpress
Dimensions
Height:
372 millimetres
Width:
258 millimetres
(Per sheet c.)
Width:
770 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Dodgson notes in his annotated copy of his catalogue that Röttinger catalogued the print as by Georg Pencz; see H. Röttinger, 'Die Holzschnitte des Georg Pencz', Leipzig, 1914, no.3. According to David Landau the woodcut was an illustration of a poem by Hans Sachs dated 9 March 1530.
Bibliographic references
Hollstein / German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700
(117)
Landau 1978 / Catalogo completo dell' opera grafica di Georg Pencz
(127)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols
(I.475.138)
(as Sebald Beham)
Pauli 1901-11 / Hans Sebald Beham: Ein Kritisches Verzeichniss seiner Kupferstiche Radirungen und Holzschnitte
(1224)
(as S. Beham)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
classical mythology
hunting/shooting
classical deity
Associated names
Representation of:
Artemis/Diana
Representation of:
Actaeon
Illustration to:
Hans Sachs
(See Curatorial Comment)
Acquisition date
1810
(before)
Acquisition notes
The three blocks were each allocated a separate inventory number in 1837. Partly laid down. No indication of provenance on the verso
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
E,8.168-170