Die Heyligen Junckfrawen unnd Mertirerin inn dem Himlischen Rosengartten

Die Heyligen Junckfrawen unnd Mertirerin inn dem Himlischen Rosengartten

Broadside on the heavenly rose garden; with a stencil-coloured woodcut from eight (?) blocks of virgin saints and the Holy Kinship seated on benches in front of rose bushes arranged in four horizontal strips; below 30 lines of German letterpress verse in eight columns describing the Christian path to the rose garden. (Nuremberg: n.d.)

Height: Height: 1005 millimetres (Borderline) (Borderline)
Height: Height: 1061 millimetres (Sheet size) (Sheet size)
Width: Width: 704 millimetres (Borderline) (Borderline)
Width: Width: 704 millimetres (Sheet size) (Sheet size)

Inscription content: Publication line: 'Gedruckt zu Nürnberg, bey Hans Wolff Glaser.'

Representation of: St Lucy
Representation of: St Christina
Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: St Elizabeth of Hungary
Representation of: St Apollonia
Representation of: St Ursula
Representation of: St Margaret of Antioch
Representation of: St Martha
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Joseph
Representation of: Virgin Mary
Representation of: Jesus Christ
Representation of: St Anne
Representation of: St Joachim
Representation of: God

Printed by: Hans Wolfgang Glaser

Printed in: Nuremberg
Europe: Germany: Bavaria (state): Mittelfranken (region): Nuremberg

1550-70

British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1930-0617-37
Purchased from: C G Boerner (sale Leipzig, 6/9 May 1930/637)
Previous owner/ex-collection: Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (Lugt 971)

woodcut, letterpress, stencil printing