Early Colour Printing: German
Renaissance Woodcuts at the British
Museum
By Elizabeth Savage. 256 pp. incl. over 150 col. +
b. & w. ills. (Paul Holberton, London, 2021), £50.
ISBN 978–1–911300–75–5. |
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Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. Arms of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
as Cardinal of Salzburg, attributed to
Hans Weiditz, from the Liber selectarum
cantionum, ed. Ludwig Senfl. Augsburg 1520.
Seven-block colour woodcut, 27.4 by 20.6 cm.
(British Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Monumental prints. Wellesley, New Haven and Philadelphia
86. Wallpaper with nymphs and satyrs, by Sebald Beham. c.1520–25. Woodcut, photomontage reconstruction. (Herzog Anton-Ulrich Museum).
Attributed works:
87. Feast of the gods, by Diana Mantuana, after Giulio Romano. 1575, republished 1613.
Engraving, printed from three plates, 37.1 by 111.2 cm. (Baltimore Museum of Art, Garrett collection; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
88. Detail of the Submersion of Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea, after Titian. c.1513–16. Woodcut, printed from twelve blocks, 118 by 215 cm. (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).