Saint Thomas

18th century

Not on view

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, devotional images composed of cut and reassembled prints elaborately adorned with paint, fabric, and other materials found a ready market throughout Catholic Europe. Vividly colored and multitextured, these works stimulated spiritual devotion through their alluring optical and tactile qualities. Long thought to be the products of amateur practitioners, devotional assemblages were more often professionally made, with dedicated industries concentrated in Antwerp and Southern Germany. These works belong to a well-established practice of altering, combining, and repurposing printed images, and they exhibit a sophisticated handling of materials.

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Title: Saint Thomas
Artist: Anonymous, German, 18th century
Date: 18th century
Medium: Ink, silk, and painted vellum on a sheet of vellum with a gilt-stamped paper border
Dimensions: 12 13/16 × 9 7/8 in. (32.6 × 25.1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Cut Paper, Ephemera
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1977
Object Number: 1977.627.27
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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