Inscription
at left, printed in letter press: [Latin texts of the main eucharistic elements of the Catholic Mass: the Gloria and the Credo]; at right, printed in letter press: [Latin texts spoken at the Offertory: the prayers for the offering of the Host, the mingling of wine and water, the offering of the wine, the appeal for God's acceptance of the offering of the Mass, the call to the Holy Spirit, and the words of consecration]; within the woodcut image at center, in coat of arms at lower right: [helmet monogram of the printer]; verso, at left, in pen and black ink: [prayer to Christ and the Trinity]; verso, at right, in pen and black ink: [text of John 1:1-14]
[see Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pp. 164-167.]
Provenance
Poor Clare convent, Mulhouse, from c. 1495 at the earliest to 1523.[1] Edmund Schilling? [1888-1974], Frankfurt and London[2]; (August Laube, Zurich); (probably via Heinrich Eisemann [1890-1972], London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 14 March 1956; gift to NGA, 1959.
Exhibition History
- 1965
- Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 78, repro.
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 4, repro.
- 1990
- Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 54, repro.
- 2005
- Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 39, repro.
Bibliography
- 1926
- Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.
- 1947
- Schilling, Edmund. "Zur Geschichte einer Basler Kanontafel des 15. Jahrhunderts," Zeitschrift für Schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte. vol. 9 (1947): pp. 147-150 and pl. 49-52.
- 1965
- Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 78.
- 1982
- Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 4.
- 1990
- Russell 1990, cat.no.54.
- 1995
- Ousterhout, Robert and Leslie Brubaker, eds. Illinois Byzantine Studies IV: The Sacred Image East and West. Urbana, 1995: 298, fig. 99.
- 1998
- Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. New York, 1998: 309, fig. 6.24.
- 2000
- Les dominicaines d'Unterlinden. Paris, 2000: 222, fig. 26.
- 2004
- Weekes, Ursula. Early Engravers and Their Public: the Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500. London: Harvey Miller, 2004, p. 12, fig. 3.
- 2018
- Schmidt, Suzanne Karr. Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 72-75, Fig. 2.8.
- 2021
- Bourgeois, David, Caroline Danforth, and Henrike Lähnemann. "Letter for Apollonia," Franciscan Studies. vol. 79 (2021): pp. 165-196.
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