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Woodcut by Virgil Solis

Published:

Frankfurt, Zöpfel, Rasch u. Feyerabend, 1590.

Woodcut: 15.2 x 12 cm on full FOLIO leaf

Text in German.

Virgil Solis or Virgilius Solis (Nuremberg 1514 – 1 August 1562), a member of a prolific family of artists, was a German draughtsman and printmaker in engraving, etching and woodcut who worked in Nuremberg. His prints were sold separately or formed the illustrations of books; many prints signed by him are probably by assistants. After his death his widow married his assistant and continued the workshop into the early seventeenth century.

His woodcuts illustrating Ovid were especially influential, though partly borrowing from earlier illustrations by the French artist Bernard Salomon. They were reprinted and copied in many different editions, in Latin and translations into various languages; the Ovid from which the illustration at left has been taken was printed at Frankfort in 1581. He published in armorial of the Holy Roman Empire in 1555.

Jost Amman was an assistant of Solis' before starting his own workshop.
 
FINE DECORATIVE WOODCUT. HANDCOLORED.

Item Condition: Please view images carefully. Wear to edges. A little dusty. Some age spotting. 


Rare woodcut by Master Engraver. Mannerist Border.

Virgil Solis - Woodcuts on rare Folio Bible leaf - Gideon Defeats the Midianites - hand coloured - 1590

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