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Object Type
Museum number: E,2.265
Description: Late impression of a copy of Christ on the Cross, with three angels catching his blood in three chalises and a phoenix at the foot of the cross, and four lines of German letterpress. c.1513 Woodcut and letterpress
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School/style
Production date: 1513
Materials
Technique: woodcut; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 505 millimetres; Width: 362 millimetres
Curator's comments: Woodcut on two conjoined sheets, printed from two blocks. CD: no watermark The German text reads: "Herr meinen Gayst beuilich ich dir / Dein gnädig Angsicht wend zu mir / Durch dein bitter leyden vnd sterben / Lass mich inn kainer Sünd verderben" The woodblock of the original woodcut is in Berlin.
Bibliographic references: Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (182.copy.b); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.125.58) (copy of); Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.352.8b) (copy); Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.236.2) (copy of)
Location: Not on display
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Associated names
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,2.265

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