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Strixner, Nepomuk (Altötting 1782-München 1855). Hl. Katharina; after Bernardino Luini (Luini/Lago Maggiore 1480/85-Milano before 1532). München, 1817. Large chalk and pen lithograph printed with light yellow tone plate; showing St. Catherine of Alexandria, half-length, holding a palm leaf in her right hand, her left hand pointing upwards; the spiked wheel in the bottom right corner, a town and landscape in the distance. Lettered in lower margin "Luini pinx:" and "N. Strixner del:" 48,5 x 36,3 cm. (# 5903)

Winkler No. 831, 56. Dussler, (München IV), p. 168, No. 29. In database British Museum. Incunable of lithography. Johann Nepomuk Strixner was lithographer in München. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (female saint/martyr, early 4th c.) is venerated as Christian saint and virgin martyr, patron of education and learning; mystically 'married' to Christ. Said to have been executed by the Roman emperor Maxentius. Her attribute is a (broken) wheel, representing the first attempt to kill her when the wheel to which she had been tied was struck by a thunderbolt and destroyed. She was subsequently beheaded. From: "Chr. von Mannlich. Königlich Bayerischer Gemäldesaal zu München und Schleissheim". Published under the direction of Strixner, Ferdinand Piloty & Cie, 1817 ff. With 200 lithographs (the first 112 published until 1821, as incunables of lithography). - Ample margins.