Master M

MASTER M   active Southern Netherlands first quarter 16^th century Liège

Saint Servatius (The Patron Saint of Maastricht).

Engraving; c. 1500-1520.  Hollstein 36, of the greatest rarity. The engraving is known in impressions in Liège, British Museum (hand colored) and our recently discovered impression here.  Provenance: Henry Ralph Mowbray Howard (1883 - ?), Lugt 1318.

Master M (or as he often styled himself Master M A M) may well have been a monk or friar at the Monastery of St. Trudo in Liège. He was a skilled engraver and some forty-one engravings by him are known. All are of the greatest rarity,  either unique, or in no case known in more than three impressions. All of his engravings are of religious subjects, and almost exclusively devotional subjects.

78 x 52  mm     3 1/8 x 2 1/8 inches