1532 Master of Petrach - Hans Weiditz woodcut leaf - The Lot of Thieves

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1532 Master of Petrach - Hans Weiditz woodcut leaf - The Lot of Thieves

Extremely fine and detail woodcut executed by Hans Weiditz.

Original woodcut leaf from Weidlitz's striking series of woodcuts produced for Petrach's Trostspiegel published in 1532

Text to verso

30 x 19.9

Weiditz was not only the most versatile but the busiest of the illustrators of his time... and one of the little group of outstanding woodcut designers of the German Renaissance with a highly individualized style and a most personal outlook on life.  

More than any of his fellows he knew how to break up the surfaces of his blocks into rich tapestries... and to keep the notation of fact interesting

and piquant. Passing by these more technical and aesthetic aspects of his work, we can find unfailing pleasure in the reports of life and manners. He might almost be claimed as the first of the social caricaturists, the first artist who with full command over his printing surface devoted himself to subject matter which in later years was to be so variously handled by such men as Hogarth, Moreau, Chodowiecki, Daumier, and Gavarni, [HANS WEIDITZ: A STUDY IN PERSONALITY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, W. M. I., JR. ] 

A few minor marginal tears (no effecting woodcut).

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  • Condition: Superb leaf from the Petrarch's Trostspiegel of 1532
  • Subject: Natural Science
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Binding: Loose Pages
  • Publisher: Augsburg, Steiner 1532.
  • Place of Publication: Germany
  • Date of Publication: 1532
  • Author: Petrarch

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