Possible Printer's Device of Wolfgang Stöckel
A woodcut depicting Saint Jerome in prototypical fashion, kneeling before a crucifix and smiting himself on the chest with a stone. It also includes two of the other 'attributes' that typically occur in his portraits: the lion and the cardinal’s hat. The printer, Wolfgang Stöckel may have used it as a kind of printer's device, and some have characterized it as a loose copy of the work of Wolf Traut.
Stoeckel, Wolfgang, active 1496-1525
Leipzig (Germany)
Eck, Johann, 1486-1543
Crosses
Crucification
Lion
Hats
Printing
Printers' marks
Printers
Jesus Christ
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Sixteenth century
13 x 9.5 cm (approx.)
Still image
woodcuts (prints)
printer's marks
This work is a part of the Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection.
Excusatio eckij : ad ea que falso sibi Philippus Melanchton gra[m]maticus Vuittenbergen[sis] super theologica disputatione lipsica adscripsit.
1519 ECK A
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