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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

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

Israhel van Meckenem|Anonymous, German, Cologne, 15th century|Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

Date
late 15th century
Medium
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.
Dimensions
Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in. (26 x 20.4 x 1.3 cm)
Object type
Album
Classification
Albums
Object number
2003.476
Credit line
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and 2002 Benefit Fund; and The Chester Dale Collection, Bequest of Chester Dale, Gifts of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Henry Walters and Anonymous, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 2003

Artist information

German, Meckenem ca. 1440/45–1503 Bocholt| |

Subjects and terms

  • Sadness
  • Cross
  • Christ

The Met object ID 363263. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.