The Seven Sleepers from Der Heiligen Leben, Sommerteil (Lives of the Saints, Summertime), Plate 39 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century
Unknown artist
1487
- Medium
- Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black with pen and blue and black ink additions (recto), and letterpress in black (verso), on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat
- Dimensions
- Image: 7 × 6.6 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/8 in.); Sheet: 26.3 × 18.6 cm (10 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingwoodcut (process)woodcutpaper (fiber product)
