Artists: Virgil Solis, Jost Amman. With an output of over 2,000 prints and drawings, Virgil Solis was one of Nuremberg's most prolific printmakers and book illustrators. Jost Amman took the place of Virgil Solis in Nuremberg. Hans Bocksberger (Monogram BV).
Title: Five illustrations to an unidentified edition of Luther's Biblia. Wooden blocks passed from one publisher to another and were widely used in different books XVI-XVII centuries.
Signed: one is signed with monogram BV. (Nagler Vol. I, No. 2096).
Collector's inscriptions in Iron gall ink: 1509 (?), Virgilius Solis, Virg. Solis monogram... etc.
Dimensions: Images from 2 3/8" x 3 1/4" to 2 1/2" x 3 5/8". Sheets 6 1/2" x 8 1/8".
Edition: the unidentified edition of the religious literature of the 16th century.
Materials and Techniques: woodcuts on paper, letterpress verso. Five woodcuts are pasted onto two sides of the supporting sheet.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: worn paper, heavily used plate, trimmed printed frames, traces of glue throughout, dents, tears. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: collector's album of German woodcuts XVI C. Our collection comprises pages with five, six, and eight prints each, all designed uniformly, from the same album, under reference numbers 148/1 to 148/4.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: German School XVI C.
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