6257B

Saint Peter the Apostle

Artist: Workshop of Pedro Ocharte (but only as printer)
Title: Saint Peter the Apostle
Date: 1583
Medium: Woodblock printing. Published in Fray Bernardino de Sahagun, Psalmodia Christiana[.] Ciudad de México: Pedro Ocharte, 1583, fol. 110v.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Pedro Ocharte, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/712
Correspondence Credit: https://mediateca.uaslp.mx/node/712; Rodríguez & Corpus 2024, n. 126.
Note: The line-by-line similarity between 6257A and 6257B and the persistence of signs of wear of 6257A in 6257B 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: 6257B