print;
prayer-book
- Museum number
- 1912,1022.1.12
- Description
-
Christ being nailed to the cross; the background is covered with opaque blue; pasted onto a vellum leaf in a MS (fol 114 v), within decorative border
Engraving with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1450-1500
- Dimensions
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Height: 69 millimetres
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Width: 51 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of 21 engravings, inserted into a Netherlandish manuscript Book of Hours "Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis" and registered as 1912,1022.1.1-21. For details on the manuscript, see 1912,1022.1.1. This print is the only known impression from a series of twelve on the Life of Christ (Lehrs 14- 25).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2001 May-Aug, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 'Master of St Bartholomew'
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts, formerly Add. Ms.38,123 (from the Huth bequest to the BM in 1910)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,1022.1.12