Mercury

1531

Georg Pencz

Associated Names
Georg Pencz

Artist, German, c. 1500 - 1550

This drawing depicts an architectural and urban scene showing craftsmen at work. The scene includes various craftsmen engaging in their trades, an architectural archway, a figure seated at a desk with tools, workbenches, buildings with different arches and windows, and celestial imagery with an emblematic figure among the clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1954.12.214

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 94

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1901

  • Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 909.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Roosendaal: Koninklijke van Poll, 1991 (vol. XXXI), no. 94.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. R82.

Wikidata ID

Q65366298

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