print
- Museum number
- 1834,0712.2
- Title
- Series: Small Passion
- Description
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Unique proof of the title-page of a series of 37 woodcuts; Christ as the Man of Sorrows, sitting on a stone slab and resting his head on his right arm; above two lines of Gothic inscription cut in the block. c.1511
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1511
- Dimensions
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Height: 86 millimetres (image)
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Height: 133 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 77 millimetres (image)
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Width: 103 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Dodgson, the spelling mistake of the inscription, "Passionis" instead of "Passio", has almost entirely been erased, and then restored with Indian ink, but the dot of the "i" and the ornamental flourishes of the "s" remain intact.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1834
- Acquisition notes
- This important group of prints by and after Dürer and Lucas van Leyden was purchased by Ottley in the second part of the Stowe sale. They were listed in the 1837 inventory under the numbers Kk,6.1 to 162 and were also registered as 1834,0712.1 to 162. Both the 1834,0712 and the Kk,6 numbers have been used in the past, but it is too disruptive to change them now as so many have been mounted. Instead on every record the alternative number has been entered as an additional number. The 162 prints were all sold on 19 June 1834; Ottley bought 20 lots in that day's sale and the total price paid by the BM was £95 17s 6d. Ottley seems to have done the bidding at the sale in person. (AVG 2019)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1834,0712.2
- Additional IDs
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Other BM number: Kk,6.2