Saint John on Patmos

c. 1545/1555

Master H.W.G.

Artist, German, active first half 16th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 19.2 × 35.7 cm (7 9/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.308

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein 83, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 50, repro.

1969

  • Prints and drawings of the Danube School; an exhibition of South German and Austrian graphic art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-1970, no. 112, repro.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 31.

Bibliography

1858

  • Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Künstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919, vol. III, no. 1722.2 (as Monogrammist HWG).

1949

  • Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. LXIII (Virgil Solis, Dieter Beaujean, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2004, 83, state only.

Inscriptions

lower left, in block: HWG; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: c.25966

Watermarks

partial watermark present but unidentified

Wikidata ID

Q65081158

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