5076B

Arma Christi within a circular frame and Tetramorph

Artist: Workshop of Antonio Ricardo (as co-designer, co-engraver and printer)
Title: Arma Christi within a circular frame and Tetramorph
Date: 1602
Medium: Woodcut. 191x120mm (approx). Used as a title page illustration to the section Sigvense los qvatro sanctos evangelios […] in the front matter of Constituciones y ordenanças de la universidad, y studio general de la Ciudad de los Reyes del Piru. Lima: Antonio Ricardo, 1602.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Antonio Ricardo, Lima, Perú.
Photo Source: John Carter Brown Library / archive.org
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Note 1: Evidence that Ricardo used the same woodblock as Martínez (PI 5076A) comes from the shared dimensions of the impressions, the line-by-line similarities between them (modulo the graven instruments of the passion), and the losses they share. Witness in this last regard the losses in (a) the halo of the eagle, (b) the portion of the filacteria lying immediately to the right of the eagle, (c) the portion of the filacteria next to the angel (three shared losses here), and (d) the portion of the filacteria between the lion's paws. The graven instruments of the passion therefore indicate that what we have here is a second state of the Martínez block.
Note 2: I have not found any other printing of the state just mentioned. The simplest account of the facts is, therefore, that the workshop of Antonio Ricardo was resposible for the second state of the woodblock (PI 5076A) originally cut by Martínez by 1486; the Ricardo workshop would have designed and cut, on the Martínez block, the instruments on the passion seen therein.
Item: 5076B

Correspondences: Archive: 5076A/5076B; Archive: 5076A/5076B; 5076A/5076B