The Man of Sorrows and Mater Dolorosa, 1512

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Medium

woodcut with letterpress text, highlighted with red ink, on laid paper

Dimensions

block (upper): 21.1 × 23.6 cm (8 5/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
block (lower): 14.7 × 3.7 cm (5 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
overall: 41.6 × 26.5 cm (16 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 3, State only

Accession Number

1952.8.473

Artists / Makers

Wolf Traut (artist) German, c. 1486 - 1520

Hieronymus Höltzel (publisher) German, 1500 - 1525

Image Use

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Inscription

bottom of central woodcut, in the block: ASPICE QVI TRANSIS QVIA TV MIHI CAVSA DOLORIS (Behold [you] who pass by because you [are] the cause of my sorrow); in letterpress type, in two columns below central woodcut: [Sebastian Brant's sixty-eight-line poetic dialogue "Querulosa Christi consolatio ad dolorosam virginis Marie compassionem"]; in letterpress type, below Brant's text: [dedication to Hieronymus Ebner]; in letterpress type, with dedication at the bottom of broadsheet: Impressum Nurermbergeper / Hieronymus Holtzel. Anno.12.; in letterpress type, at the bottom of broadsheet: [2 line indulgence]

Provenance

(Heinrich Eisemann [1890-1972], London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1951; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1983: Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, no. 59, repro.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein's German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. Vol. XCIV (Wolf Traut, Dieter Beaujean, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2019, no. 3, state only.

1983: Smith, J.C. Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618. Austin, 1983: no. 59.

1994: Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, 1520-1580. Princeton, NJ, 1994: no. 2.