Inscription
at top center, on banderole, in block: Sun gib mir din hercz / den ich lieg hab. Dem / läß ich sträff nit ab. (Son, give me your heart. I do not remit the punishment of the one that I hold dear.); at center, on banderole, in block: O herr das will ich. das / beger ich darumbe / so soltu ziehe mich (O Lord, this I want, I desire it, for this reason thus should you pull me.); at upper right, on card held by angel, in block: Gedenck der / letste zÿt so / sündest du / nÿmmer (Think of the last days; then you will never sin.)
[translations from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 282.]
Provenance
Weigel & Zestermann. Przibram Collection, Vienna. (Weiss & Co., Munich); Martin Aufhäuser [d.1944], Munich and Holland; [1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1965
- Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 266, repro.
- 2005
- Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 88, 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. 266.
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