An Easter Calendar Beginning with the Year 1466, 1466

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in yellow, ochre, green, rose, and brown, with volvelle joined at center by a string

Dimensions

image: 18.8 x 13.8 cm (7 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.)

sheet: 21.3 x 16 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1904, State p

Accession Number

1944.2.1

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

across top, in block: rota. pasche. menses. dies. aureus. Numerus (Easter table. months. days. golden numbers); on perimeter of central disk around angel, in block: do. pede. preteritum. Digii[u?]to. noto. pasca. futurum. que. numerum. Aureum. (I give with the foot the past and with the finger the future Easter and the golden number.); within circle at lower left, in block: litter(a)e dominicales et bivectiles [sic] mcccclxvi; within circle at lower right, in block: Rota avrei numeri. mcccclxvi; in inner ring of circle at lower left, in pen and black ink: 91; in inner circle at lower right, in pen and black ink: hic incipe / 91

[translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 200.]

Provenance

(Sotheby's, 7 December 1926, no. 143); (L'Art Ancien, Zurich cat. 22, 1938, no.18); Richard Zinser [b. 1884], New York; purchased 23 October 1943 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Zinser, Richard H.

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. 271, repro.

2000: "Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1700", The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle; The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 41.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 54, 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.

2000: Sherman, Claire Richter. Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Exh. cat. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2000, no. 41.

2018: Schmidt, Suzanne Karr. Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 23-24, 82-88, Figs. 1.1 & 3.1B.