National Gallery of Art · Print
An Easter Calendar Beginning with the Year 1466
German 15th Century
- Date
- 1466
- Medium
- woodcut printed in dark brown with hand coloring in yellow, ochre, green, rose, and brown on laid paper, with volvelle joined at center by a string
- Dimensions
- image: 18.8 x 13.8 cm (7 3/8 x 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 21.3 x 16 cm (8 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.) overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1944.2.1
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1401 to 1500
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Angel
- German
- Flower
- Sun
- Moon
- Writing
Provenance
(Sotheby's, 7 December 1926, no. 143); (L'Art Ancien, Zurich cat. 22, 1938, no.18); Richard Zinser [b. 1884], New York; purchased 23 October 1943 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1944.
Inscription
across top, in block: rota. pasche. menses. dies. aureus. Numerus (Easter table. months. days. golden numbers); on perimeter of central disk around angel, in block: do. pede. preteritum. Digii[u?]to. noto. pasca. futurum. que. numerum. Aureum. (I give with the foot the past and with the finger the future Easter and the golden number.); within circle at lower left, in block: litter(a)e dominicales et bivectiles [sic] mcccclxvi; within circle at lower right, in block: Rota avrei numeri. mcccclxvi; in inner ring of circle at lower left, in pen and black ink: 91; in inner circle at lower right, in pen and black ink: hic incipe / 91 [translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 200.]
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