Christ Speaks to His Disciples

Series TitleGeistliche Auslegung des Lebens Jesu Christi

Former TitleChrist Appearing to the Saints

Artist Johann Zainer (German)

Dateca. 1485

MediumHand-colored woodcut

DimensionsImage: 5 1/2 × 4 9/16 inches (13.97 × 11.59 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 17 3/16 inches (25.4 × 43.66 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number33-1017

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Exhibition History

Exhibition, Women's City Club, Kansas City, MO, February-March 1964, no cat.

Provenance

With Alden Galleries, Kansas City, MO, by October 25, 1933;

Purchased from Alden Galleries by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, vol. 5, Contenant un catalogue des incunables à figures imprimés en Allemagne, en Suisse, en Autriche-Hongrie et en Scandinavie (Berlin: A. Cohn, 1910), no. 3722.

Albert Schramm, Der Bilderschmuck des Frühdrucke, vol. 5, Die Drucke von Johann Zainer in Ulm (Stuttgart, Germany: A. Hiersemann, 1923), no. 342.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 303, as Four prints from Geistliche Auslegung des Lebens Jesu Christi, Ulm: Christ Speaks to His Disciples.

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