printing-block

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Object Type: printing-block
Museum number: 1839,0608.3.28
Title: Series: Small Passion
Description: Christ before the high priest Annas. c.1508-9 Woodblock cut for printing a woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1508-1509
Materials: wood
Technique: cut
Dimensions: Height: 130 millimetres; Width: 98 millimetres; Depth: 25 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This woodblock was used for the thirteenth plate of the series Small Passion, which was first published as a book in Nuremberg in 1511.The book consists of a woodcut title-page and 36 illustrations, all with letterpress text on the verso, and a final page with impressum and colophon on the recto. Thirty-five of the thirty-seven used woodblocks are in the British Museum. This block, probably pearwood, was cut along a tangential longitudinal section of the wood-grain ( Scientific Research Department, Dec.1993). see Renaissance Prints, BM exh.cat (1995), no.28. For an impression of this woodblock, see Meder 137 (1896-1-25-1-12)
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (137) (cf); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.120.28) (cf); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.262.7) (book; cf); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.198) (cf)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: judgement of christ
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Annas
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Rev P E Boissier
Acquisition date: 1839
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1839,0608.3.28
Conservation: Treatment: 21 Dec 2005; Treatment: 30 Sep 2004

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