Description

A rare large broadside represents a wooden tympanum, made in 1429, in the church of St. Sebaldus in Nuremberg, Germany. The upper part in a Gothic form is dominated by Maria Lactans, with Sister Christina Ebner (1277 –1356), a German Dominican nun, writer and mystic on the right-hand side, as a row below is decorated by portraits of the members of the Nuremberg family Ebner.

The engraving was made circa 1750 by a Nuremberg based engraver Johann Wilhelm Stör (1705-1765).

Although the broadside is mentioned in old literature we could not find any examples in institutions.

References: Moritz-Maximilian MAYER, Die Kirche des heiligen Sebaldus, 1831, p. 28; Georg Andreas WILL, Der Nürnbergischen Münz-Belustigungen, Zweyter Theil, 1765, p. 421; Christoph Gottlieb von MURR, Beschreibung der vornehmsten Merkwürdigkeiten in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg, 1801, p. 62; C. G. MÜLLER, Verzeichnis von Nürnbergischen topographisch-historischen Kupferstichen…, 1791, p. 150; Manfred H. GRIEB (ed.), Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker,.., 2007, p. 1496.