Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome

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Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence, late 15th century, Engravings, two touched with gold; woodcut, hand-colored; metalcut, hand-colored; manuscript in dark brown ink with red, and blue initials and flourishes; bound in blind-stamped leather., Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in. (26 x x cm), Albums, Israhel van Meckenem (German, Meckenem ca. 1440/45–1503 Bocholt), Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century, Anonymous, German, Cologne, 15th century, This fascinating album provides vivid testimony to the way in which prints were used in the fifteenth century. Twelve outstanding early impressions of Israhel van Meckenem’s engravings of the Passion are interleaved with manuscript text of the Hundred Meditations on the Passion of Christ

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Size: 3889px × 5581px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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