About the Artwork
The Crucifixion
ca. 1485
Johann Zainer
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German
Unknown
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)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass
35.4
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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
Provenance
Lillian Henkel Haass
1935-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Hind. A. M. History of Woodcut. Boston and New York, 1935, pp. 309-310.
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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.
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