Crucifixion, 1483

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

block: 31.5 x 21 cm (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

sheet: 39 x 27.7 cm (15 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 373

Accession Number

2009.16.1

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower verso in graphite: Exh. Reuwich (Hausbuchmeister?) / Missale Wratislawiense(?) Mainz P Schaeffer 1484 u [not deciphered] / vgl. Schreiber 4688

Provenance

(August Laube, Zurich). Purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Laube, August

Bibliography

1910: Heitz, Paul, and W.L. Schreiber, Christus am Kreuz : Kanonbilder der in Deutschland gedruckten Messbücher des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts.
Strassburg, 1910, no. 28.

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930, no. 373