book;
print
- Museum number
- 1896,0125.1.27
- Title
- Series: Small Passion
- Description
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Twenty-eighth plate from the complete, bound series of 37 woodcuts with Latin text, printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; on the right Joseph of Arimathaea supports the body of Christ, on the left St John comforts the Virgin, in the left foreground the Magdalen bending over, her ointment jar standing next to her, in the right foreground a basket with tools and the crown of thorns, and text in letterpress on verso. c.1509-10
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1509-1510
- Dimensions
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Height: 127 millimetres
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Width: 98 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is the twenty-eighth plate from a complete copy of the series printed by Hieronymus Höltzel, Nuremberg, 1511, here bound as a book. The book consists of a title-page and 36 illustrations, all with letterpress text on the verso, and a final page with impressum and colophon on the recto.
For further information, also on the woodblocks, see Meder 125 (1896-1-25-1-37).
Collation: This page has the printed signature D iiij
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Passio Christi ab Alberto Durer...effigiata cu[m]...carmi nibus...Benedicti Chelidonij...
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0125.1.27
