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German 15th Century

Saint John the Baptist [recto], probably 1460/1480

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series Title

Sheet with Virgin and Five Saints [S.1184m; Field 178-183]

Medium

woodcut

Dimensions

image: 14.1 x 11.4 cm (5 9/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1513, State m

Accession Number

1943.3.578.a

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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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. 178, repro.

1968: The Golden Age of the Woodcut: 1450-1550, Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1968, no. 2, 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. 178.

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