Helgen
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Helgen, in the history of printing, were saint pictures.
William James Linton in the The Masters of Wood-Engraving (1890):
- "Early in the fifteenth century (we have a certain date of 1423), at least a quarter of a century earlier than what is called the “ invention of printing” (more properly to be called the invention of moveable letters), and so before anything like editions of books, we find, first current in Southern Germany, single-leaf rudest wood-cuts, of various sizes, with and without text or legend, known by the name of Helgen, or Saint-Pictures. Mere outlines for colouring, printed on paper, a manufacture but recently introduced, they were the immediate result of the first opportunity afforded by fit material for multiplying impressions of engraving. They appear to be the earliest of modern “ Prints.” With them we fairly begin the history of Wood-Engraving.
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