6050B

Ornamental Band

Artist: Workshop of Antonio Ricardo (but only as printer?)
Title: Ornamental Band
Date: 1584
Medium: Woodcut or woodcut printing. Printed on p. xi of Doctrina Cristiana y Catecismo […] Compuesto por Auctoridad del Concilio Prouincial, que se celebro en la Ciudad de los Reyes el año 1583. Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1584.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Antonio Ricardo, Lima, Perú.
Photo Source: John Carter Brown Library / Hathi Trust Digital Library
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Note 1: This impression needs to be measured and displayed at scale vis-à-vis the images of the impression in 6050B.
Note 2: Line-by-line similarities between the images of 6050A and 6050B suggest that these two woodcuts were printed from one and the same woodblock. This block could have been part of the printing wares that Martín de Montesdoca (active between 1553 and 1558) sold to Juan Gutiérrez (active between 1559 and 1572), and which Antonio Ricardo then acquired from Gutiérrez.
Item: 6050B