Inscription
lower left, in image, in plate: I.M. [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: bocholt; across bottom, in plate: Quicumque devote septem orationes apostolicas coram Christi armis legerit et septem Pater Noster Ave Maria subiunxerit quotiens id fecerit de in dulgentia XX milium annorum gaudebit (Whoever piously recites before the instruments of Christ's Passion seven Credos, seven Pater Nosters and Ave Marias, and as often as he does, shall enjoy an indulgence of 20,000 years) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 214.]
Provenance
(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1949.
Exhibition History
- 1950
- Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 16, repro.
- 1953
- Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 107.
- 1967
- Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 214, repro.
Bibliography
- 1908
- Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
- 1949
- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
- 1967
- Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 214.
- 2018
- Porras, Stephanie. Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and Devotion. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018, p. 97, fig. 51.
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