Biblia Pauperum Leaf
artist
Unknown
Dateabout 1460
MediumWoodcut ink on paper
Dimensions28.6 x 18.4 cm (11 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009823
eMuseum ID718914
Other Number7.2.24.x
TMS Source ID23446
Last Updated9/11/24
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MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (on back bottom right corner): 6
An original leaf from a block book bought by me from the sale of the library of Mr. W.G. Medlicott of Longmeadow, Mass, / in 1878. / C.E. Norton / See Berjeau's Biblia Pauperum, London, 1859, plate XI / Woodbury's Hist. of wood engraving, New York, 1883, p.34
An original leaf from a block book bought by me from the sale of the library of Mr. W.G. Medlicott of Longmeadow, Mass, / in 1878. / C.E. Norton / See Berjeau's Biblia Pauperum, London, 1859, plate XI / Woodbury's Hist. of wood engraving, New York, 1883, p.34
ProvenanceNotesCollection of wool merchant William Gibbons Medlicott (1816-1883) around 1861-1878.
Purchased by scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) from the Medlicott sale in 1878.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 4 June 1904.
Purchased by scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) from the Medlicott sale in 1878.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 4 June 1904.
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