An antique 15th Century woodcut engraving depicting St. Appolonia holding a trooth in a pair of pincers. It is believed that this is the earliest depiction of St. Appolonia in printed form. St. Appolonia is the patron saint of dentistes. This woodcut is excised from a single from a single page of the historic Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) published in 1493 by Hartmann Schedel with woodcuts produced by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleyenwurff. Image of Dionysius on verso.
Approx 6cms by 8cms.
