Nine woodcuts of saints

Accession number:

PML 60528.a-i

Published:

[Augsburg], [about 1460]

Description:

9 woodcuts ; 59 x 42-44 mm

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Schreiber attributed printing to about 1460 and the hand coloring to Augsburg.
Subject of prints: a) Trinity (Schreiber 747a), b) St. Christopher (Schreiber 1376d), c) Martyrdom of St. Erasmus (Schreiber 1413b), d) Mass of St. Gregory (Schreiber 1489a), e) Assumption of Mary Magdalen (Schreiber 1603a), f) Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (Schreiber 1693a), g) St. Vitus (Schrieber 1730q), h) St. Ursula (Schreiber 1708d), i) St. Giles.
St. Giles woodcut (PML 60528.i) not indentified by Schreiber. At that time it was unknown because it still had the Last Judgement woodcut (PML 60528.5) pasted over it.
Prints removed from PML 20579 and blockbook Apocalypse (PML 3801) in 1970.
St. Anne woodcut (Schreiber 1210c) previously part of this group was given by J.P. Morgan, Jr. to Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1923 (23.73.1-6) in a group of prints and block book leaves that were previously removed from PML 20579/PML 3801.

Binding:

Individually matted; in clamshell box.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand colored in pink, green, blue, and yellow, with red frames and silvery-gold haloes.

Provenance:

From PML 20579: George Musgrave (1799-1872), of Edenhall, 1841, inscription (front pastedown); his sale, Puttick and Simpson; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 36 to Quaritch for Morgan, with collation note (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased at Murray sale via Quaritch, 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Block books (Printing)

Woodcuts

Department:

Printed Books