Technique: Woodcut on Paper, mounted on Paper

Date: 16th century

Description: Woodcut published by A. Vincentius in Lyon; monogrammed "AV" in the image. "Brulliot II. No. 163 draws attention to a woodcut depicting the apostles Peter and Paul with the sweat cloth, inscribed with the letters AV in the first of the given panels. It hangs in the centre at the bottom of a small vine. The aforementioned writer assumes that this is the vignette of the bookseller Anton Vincentius von Leyden, who had his business around 1543. The fact that this vignette appears in Vincentius' publishing works is correct, but Lyon, not Leyden, is the place where the aforementioned bookseller lived. A. Zanetti describes a similar vignette in the Cabinet Cicognare, which is very well drawn and made with little use of lines. The copy from the Cabinet Cicognara comes from a book with Questiones theologicae, which were printed towards the end of the 15th century.

On the verso, inscription by a foreign hand in lead "CB XVIII 306, 312 / Vincentius / Nagler I 1424".

Keywords: before 18th century, Renaissance, Religious, France,