The Crucifixion, ca. 1485

  • Johann Zainer, German

Woodcut printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper

  • Image: 6 × 4 5/8 inches (15.2 × 11.7 cm) Sheet: 10 × 7 1/4 inches (25.4 × 18.4 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass

35.4

Inscribed, in German, on block, below image and completely on verso Inscribed, in pencil, upper right corner: 122 Inscribed, lower edge of sheet: OX Ulm 1485 Geistliche Auslegung Sch. 3722

Lillian Henkel Haass

1935-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Hind. A. M. History of Woodcut. Boston and New York, 1935, pp. 309-310.

Johann Zainer, The Crucifixion, ca. 1485, woodcut printed in black ink, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, 35.4.