6239B

The Annunciation

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as a printer)
Title: The Annunciation
Date: 1578
Medium: Woodblock printing. 8.7 x 6.6 cm (Rodríguez Domínguez & Corpus Saldaña 2024, 437). Published in Alonso de Molina, Doctrina christiana en lengua mexicana[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1578, fol. 14v.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: Open Library
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/606; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 92.
Note: The line-by-line similarity between 6239A and 6239B and the persistence of signs of wear of 6239A in 6239B indicate that these two woodcuts were printed from one and the same woodblock. Printed in Seville, the Gutiérrez block could have reached Ocharte via Antonio Ricardo, an Italian typographer who traveled from Seville to Mexico in 1570 to become Ocharte's publishing partner as the printing career of Gutiérrez was coming to an end (1572).
Item: 6239B