Title: An Easter Calendar Beginning with the Year 1466
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: 1466
Physical 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.)
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.
Medium: woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in yellow, ochre, green, rose, and brown, with volvelle joined at center by a string
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