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print, satirical print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Attributed to: Matthias Gerung

Formerly attributed to: Hans Weiditz
Title
print, satirical print
Description
English: The clergy feasting in the jaws of a devil; the demon seated, turned to left on a papal bull, its left foot in a vessel for Holy Water, and holding a collection box in its right hand. Smaller demons preparing food on its head, flying creatures approaching with the pope and a canon.
Woodcut
Date circa 1536
date QS:P571,+1536-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 297 millimetres (block)

Height: 355 millimetres (sheet)
Width: 227 millimetres
Width: 275 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1880,0710.882
Notes

The woodcut is not signed in the block, but the elaborate colouring on an impression of this print in Coburg is signed with the monogram of Matthias Gerung (see Walter L. Strauss, 'The German Single-Leaf Woodcut 1550-1600', New York, 1975, vol. I, p. 258, no. 5). Gerung's considerable skill at manuscript illumination is known from his illustrations in the bible for Count Ottheinrich von der Pfalz (see Brigitte Langer and Thomas Rainer (ed), 'Kunst und Glaube, Ottheinrichs Prachtbibel und die Schlosskapelle Neuburg', exhibition catalogue, Neuburg an der Donau, 2016). For a discussion of the anti-Catholic subject of the print, see R.W. Scribner, 'For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation', Cambridge 1981, p.89.

The monster is based on an earlier composition by Hieronymus Bosch; see Daan van Heesch, 'Paulus de Kempenaer and the political exploitation of Hieronymus Bosch' Simiolus 41 (2019) p. 36, fig. 33.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-882
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