6252B

The Assumption

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: The Assumption
Date: 1580
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in Fray Bartholome Roldan, Cartilla y doctrina christiana breve y compendiosa[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1580, fol. 16v.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Google Books
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/677; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 116.
Note: The line-by-line similarity between 6252A and 6252B and the persistence of signs of wear of 6252A in 6252B 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: 6252B