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Title page (recto); Gerson as a Pilgrim [?] (verso)

Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
Hans Wechtlin (German, 1480 to 1485–after 1526)
about 1514

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Sheet: 14.9 x 16.7 cm (5 7/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number27.1234
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné C, Twelfth; P. 81 (iii, 352), P 334, 54
Signed Signed in block, lower right: . HBG . [monogram]
Marks Recto, below printed book title, in ink: Collegÿ Societ. Jesu, Erffurti.; in graphite: PIII p. 325 Nr. 81.; verso, MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 31340.; in graphite: PIII p. 334 Nr. 59 (Wechlin)/Strassburg. John Knoblandr. ca. 151[?]
InscriptionsLetterpress in center space for book title: Tertia parts operum Joan/nis de Gerson Cancel/larü parrbisien. chzi/staianislinnisacraru/litteraru docto=/ris supermum/dana conte/platione/mirumimodum pzecellens.
ProvenanceAcquired by the MFA April 1928. (Accession Date: April 1, 1927)