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Saint Margaret of Hungary.
Woodcut, ca. 1500. |
The collection, counting over 5000 pieces, consists of prints, drawings and watercolours dating from five centuries. The majority of the sheets come from the collection of the museum founder
János Simor. The most outstanding prints are Wolgemuth’s 47 woodcuts made for the Chronicle of Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer’s series (Small Passion, Large Passion, Life of the Virgin, Apocalypse), 60 engravings by Hans Holbein the Younger (especially the so called trade series), a large number of works by Marcantonio Raimondi and Antoni Waterloo, and some sheets by Schongauer, Aldegrever, Schäuffelein, Burgkmair, Cranach, Virgil Solis, Jost Amman, Goltzius, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, and Maulbertsch. A coloured woodcut from around 1500 representing Saint Margaret of Hungary is a unique piece. The collection is especially rich in works dating from between the 17th and 19th centuries. Worthy of mention are Julius Schnorr von Carosfeld’s pencil drawings of the articles of the Credo, Joseph Settegast’s twelve watercolours representing the Eucharist, 307 sketches by Károly Markó the Elder, Károly Lotz’s three enormous coloured preparative charcoal drawings for the frescos of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Budapest, and Sándor Liezen-Mayer’s charcoal drawings. For the history of Esztergom, the views of the town (16-20th c.) are significant, and Marco Casagrande’s drawings for his own sculptures of apostles made for the decoration of the Cathedral. For reasons of conservation, the pieces in the collection of prints and drawings can only be seen at temporary exhibitions.
P.Cs.-D.S.
This collection is not shown at the permanent exhibition.
