The Sudarium (Veronica's Veil, or the Vera Icon)

ca. 1500

Medium: Woodcut, handcolored, with annotations in pen and brown ink
Dimensions: image: 5 7/16 × 3 9/16 in. (13.8 × 9 cm)
sheet: 7 7/8 × 4 13/16 in. (20 × 12.3 cm)
Credit Line: Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
Accession Number: 2001.134.1
Geography: Made in Germany
Culture: German
Period: 16th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Ex Coll. Trau; Dr. T. O. Mabbott; sold at Sotheby's, London, June 24, 1969, lot 40; Sotheby's New York, November 1, 2001, lot 123A.

Bibliography

Lisa Hodermarsky and Tiffany Sprague, eds., A Perspicacious Tenure: Suzanne Boorsch at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 12, 14, ill

Object copyright

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Object/Work type

woodcuts

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