Female saints
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Title
Female saints
Description
Sixteen female saints; half-length figures with their respective attributes, arranged in four rows.
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on banderoles below the figures.
Forming a pair with E,8.175, the style corresponds closely with Wechtlin's scenes from the life of the Virgin and of Christ (Passavant III.331-2, II.53) but there is no printing on the versos and it is unclear whether they were designed as book illustrations or not. See Röttinger p.1 note 1; manuscript catalogue by Karl Parker (compiled in the 1920s) for a proposed sequel to Campbell Dodgson's 'Catalogue of Early German Woodcuts in the British Museum' [and British Library], vol.2, woodcuts by Wechtlin, no. 30.
Representation of: St Anne
Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: Virgin Mary
Representation of: St Martha
Representation of: St Ursula
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Margaret of Antioch
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Lucy
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Cecilia
Representation of: St Catherine of Siena
Representation of: St Otilia
Representation of: St Elizabeth of Hungary
Woodcut
Height: Height: 216 millimetres
Width: Width: 166 millimetres
Inscription content: Lettered with the names of the individual saints on banderoles below the figures.
Forming a pair with E,8.175, the style corresponds closely with Wechtlin's scenes from the life of the Virgin and of Christ (Passavant III.331-2, II.53) but there is no printing on the versos and it is unclear whether they were designed as book illustrations or not. See Röttinger p.1 note 1; manuscript catalogue by Karl Parker (compiled in the 1920s) for a proposed sequel to Campbell Dodgson's 'Catalogue of Early German Woodcuts in the British Museum' [and British Library], vol.2, woodcuts by Wechtlin, no. 30.
Representation of: St Anne
Representation of: St Mary Magdalene
Representation of: Virgin Mary
Representation of: St Martha
Representation of: St Ursula
Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria
Representation of: St Barbara
Representation of: St Margaret of Antioch
Representation of: St Dorothea
Representation of: St Agatha
Representation of: St Lucy
Representation of: St Agnes
Representation of: St Cecilia
Representation of: St Catherine of Siena
Representation of: St Otilia
Representation of: St Elizabeth of Hungary
Creator
Print made by: Hans Wechtlin
Source
Passavant 1860-64 / Le Peintre-Graveur (Undescribed)
Publisher
German
Date
1500-26
Contributor
British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-8-176
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-8-176
Collection
Citation
Print made by: Hans Wechtlin, “Female saints,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://www.european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/49.