The Sacred Monogram

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut with hand coloring in orange-red and gray-blue on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.6 × 19.9 cm (11 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.637

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1821, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1955

  • French Woodcuts, Engravings and Books of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 262, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 262.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at lower left, in graphite: 15 F8

Wikidata ID

Q64953122

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