An Easter Calendar Beginning with the Year 1466

1466

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1944.2.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1904, State p

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

1971

  • A Selection of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Book Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 4, 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.

Inscriptions

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.]

Wikidata ID

Q65018861

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