6247B

The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
Date: 1578
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in Alonso de Molina, Doctrina christiana en lengua mexicana[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1578, fol. 79r.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: Open Library
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/637; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 101.
Note: The line-by-line similarity between 6247A and 6247B and the persistence of signs of wear of 6247A in 6247B 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: 6247B