A Canon Table with a Lamentation (formerly known as the "Traveling Altar")

Medium

woodcut printed on parchment in black with hand coloring; set between two panels of printed text to form a triptych; housed in a slipcase with an embroidered crucifixion scene on the front and backed in leather; in turn housed in a velvet, silk, and linen box, strengthened with layers of paper from an account book, with ornamental tassels at each corner

Dimensions

image: 12.7 × 12.8 cm (5 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 15.9 × 39.8 cm (6 1/4 × 15 11/16 in.) overall (slipcase): 18 × 18 cm (7 1/16 × 7 1/16 in.) overall (box): 20.5 × 20.5 × 5 cm (8 1/16 × 8 1/16 × 1 15/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1959.16.15