3708B

The Tree of Jesse

Artist: Unidentified Chinese Artist
Title: The Tree of Jesse
Date: 1640
Medium: Woodcut. Block 5/48 illustrating the Jincheng Shuxiang (Images in a booklet presented to His Majesty), composed and with texts by Johann Adam Schall von Bell S.J. (1592-1666). Published in Beijing in 1640.
Location: 17th century publishers of the Jincheng Shuxiang, Beijing, China.
Photo Source: Bibliothèque Nationale de France Website
Correspondence Credit: Standaert 2006, 246-249
Note: The immediate source of this woodcut was an unidentified artist's autograph illustration to the Vita D[omi]ni N[ost]ri Jesu Christi […] Sinarum Imperatori transmissa à Maximiliano […] utrusq. Bauvaria Duce (Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ transmitted to the Emperor and Monarch of the Chinese by Maximilian Duke of the two Bavarias), a manuscript composed in Augsburg in 1617 and now lost. This autograph illustration was based on the corresponding print. See Standaert 2006.
Item: 3708B