Wolf Huber (1480-1553)

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Wolf Huber (1480-1553)

Saint George and the Dragon (B.7; Dodgson II, 259, 10; Winzinger 217; Holl. 10)

woodcut, 1520, very rare, watermark High Crown, with thread margins or trimmed to or just inside the borderline, an old horizontal fold, a nick at the lower left edge, generally in good condition
S. 200 x 150mm.

Lot Essay

The finer of the two impressions at the British Museum also bears a High Crown watermark. Further impressions are at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Schloss Museum, Gotha. Huber executed only thirteen woodcuts in all and most are known in only a few impressions. C. Dodgson, Catalogue of early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, 1911, vol. II, p.255, states 'the chief merit of Huber's woodcuts lies in the treatment of the landscape. They reproduce with fidelity and charm the mountain and river scenery amidst which the artist was born and bred, and even Altdorfer hardly equalled his discipline in the skill with which he draws a windy sky, sunshine bursting through clouds, or the reflection of the moon in water. Huber's study of light effects was original and advanced.'

Another impression of this rare print, from the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire was sold in these rooms 5 December, 1985, lot 23 (Old Master Prints from Chatsworth)

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