# The Ship of St Stonybroke [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Woodcut printed from eight blocks, 76,5 x 106,5 cm ## Commentary St Stonybroke was a mock saint, subject of several light-hearted texts in the 16th and 17th centuries. He was the fictitious patron of all who had lost everything through drunkenness, excess or some other causes. It used to be said that down-and-outs had stranded with St Stonybroke's 'lice-ridden' ship. That is what is depicted here, which explains the prominence given to the ship. Formerly this large, tapestry-like print was attributed to Lucas van Leyden. ## Related artworks - [A Bathhouse]() - [A Cistercian Abbot]() - [Bellows with the Fight into Egypt]() - [Caesar Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl]() - [Calvary of Hendrik van Rijn]() - [Canticum Canticorum]() - [Combat between the Actor and the Age]() - [Commemorative Medal]() - [Eighteen Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Emblem]() - [Four Canons with Sts Augustine and Jerome, with the Visitation]() - [Interior of a Gothic Church]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()