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Inscription

at upper right, inscribed in black ink: Bene scripsisti de me Thoma (You have written well about me, Thomas); at center, on pages of open book, inscribed in black ink: Invocavi et venit in me spiritus sapientie (I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me); at bottom, inscribed in black ink: Sanctus Thomas doctor et virgo

[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. 315.]

Provenance

(Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1960; gift to the NGA, 1964.

Exhibition History

1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 246, repro.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 12.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1973-1974, no. 40.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 101b, repro.
2014
Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2014 - 2015, no. 43b.

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.

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