Title: The Measure of the Side Wound and the Body of Christ
Creator: German 15th Century
Date Created: c. 1484/1492
Physical Dimensions: Overall: 12 x 8.1 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, _Recollections of a Collector_, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, _Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts_, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in vermilion, green, and yellow on paper; mounted on sheet of paper that covers manuscript on verso
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