print;
broadside(See Curatorial Comment)
- Museum number
- 1859,0709.2392
- Description
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Synagogue; whole-length female figure, frontal view, blindfolded and holding a stone slab with pseudo-Hebrew lettering; her crown on the ground; standing in a niche; part of a scene of Abraham's sacrifice at left. c.1572
Colour woodcut printed from three blocks, the tone blocks in light and dark ochre
- Production date
- 1572 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 349 millimetres (Borderline)
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Width: 268 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 'Tobias Stimmer 1539-1584. Spätrenaissance am Oberrhein', exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel 1984, no.148.
See also BM 1868,0612.20 for the 'Ecclesia' print.
The prints are strictly speaking broadsides (as well as devotional prints) as they were accompanied by a title and letterpress verse underneath, printed by Bernhard Jobin. Traces of these remain on the BM impression, which is trimmed outside the borderline. The text states that the figures are to be seen in Strasbourg, at the rear entrance to the cathedral.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015-16 Nov-Jan, BM, "German Renaissance Colour Woodcuts"
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0709.2392