6254B

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Date: 1583
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Psalmodia Christiana[.] Ciudad de México, Pedro Ocharte, 1583, fol. 210v.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/690
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/690; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 123.
Note: Line-by-line similarities between 6254A and 6254B 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: 6254B