6253B

The Mattertia

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: The Mattertia
Date: 1580
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in the following works: Fray Bartholome Roldan, Cartilla y doctrina christiana breve y compendiosa[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1580, fol. 60r — Bernardino de Sahagún, Psalmodia Christiana[.] Ciudad de México; Pedro Ocharte, 1583, fol. 122v (shown here).
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: John Carter Brown Library / Internet Archive
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/690; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 120.
Note: Line-by-line similarities between 6253A and 6253B 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: 6253B