6240B

The Ascension

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: The Ascension
Date: 1578
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in Alonso de Molina, Doctrina christiana en lengua mexicana[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1578, fol. 23v.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte
Photo Source: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/611
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/611; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 94.
Note: line-by-line similarities between 6240A and 6240B suggest 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: 6240B