6400B

Blank escutcheon within cardinal insignia and under a Gothic lintel

Artist: Workshop of Juan Pablos (but only as printer)
Title: Blank escutcheon within cardinal insignia and under a Gothic lintel
Date: 1539
Medium: Woodcut. 8 x 10.5 cm (Grañén Porrúa 2010, 145). Printed as a title page illustration, within ornamental bands, and with a title inside the escutcheon, in the following works: Juan de Zumárraga (1468-1548) Do[c]trina breve muy provechosa[.] Ciudad de México: Juan Pablos (printer) for Jua[n] Cromberger (publisher), 1543-1544 [shown here] — Juan de Zumárraga, Doctrina cristiana […] verdadero catecismo para los adultos[.] Ciudad de México: Juan Pablos (printer) for Jua[n] Cromberger (publisher), 1545.
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Juan Pablos, Ciudad de México, México.
Photo Source: Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Correspondence Credit: Grañén Porrúa 2010, 18.
Note 1: A second state of the block —with a broad middle section of the lower border cut out— was printed by Juan Pablos in 1546, 1547, and 1553 (see Grañén Porrúa 2010, pp. 176-182).
Note 2: Losses in the Cromberger block persist in the Pablos block. See for example the three losses in the lower border (one towards the center and affecting both border lines; a second one to the left but affecting only the upper border line; a third one at angles with the right border and likewise affecting only the upper line). See also the various losses in the galero and the tassle.
Item: 6400B

Correspondences: Archive: 6400A/6400B; Archive: 6400A/6400B; Archive: 6400A/6400B