print; title-page

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Object Type: print; title-page
Museum number: E,2.222
Title: Series: Small Passion
Description: Copy of 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 three lines of letterpress. c.1587 Woodcut and letterpress
Producer name: After: Albrecht Dürer
School/style: German
Production date: 1587
Materials: paper
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 86 millimetres (image); Height: 113 millimetres (sheet); Width: 77 millimetres (image); Width: 84 millimetres (sheet)
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Curator's comments: This is a deceptive copy by Johannes Mommard.; According to Meder, this print was apparently cropped and is missing its publication lines.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (125.copy) (copy.c?); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.121.52a); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.301.110.a) (copy); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.186) (copy)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: passion
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: Joseph Nollekens; Bequeathed through: Francis Douce
Acquisition date: 1834
Acquisition notes: Bequeathed by Joseph Nollekens, subject to a life interest to Francis Douce, 1834.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: E,2.222

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